Wednesday was quite a dramatic day in the Capitol. The (small) Senate chamber was filled to capacity to hear the debate on whether or not to relicense Vermont Yankee. There were many reasons to vote NO on relicensing Yankee: the Enexus spinoff, the Tritium leak into the Connecticut River, the price being offered for future [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
CPAs, Estate Taxes, and the Middle Class
There is an effort underway to repeal the Vermont estate tax changes that were implemented last year. This tax, which affects a tiny fraction of Vermont estates, has its origins in the early part of the 20th century, and was supported by some of the era’s wealthiest Americans because they thought it was unwise to [...]