Democratic candidate Sue Minter has advanced policy initiatives that will require raising more taxes on struggling Vermonters while worsening our affordability crisis, which her Republican challenger, Phil Scott, was the first candidate to champion.
Scott will eliminate annual budget deficits without raising taxes. In the last six years of the Democratic majority in the legislature, Vermont has run up deficits of $700 million and passed those costs onto Vermonters with a series of new annual taxes.
Vermont simply cannot afford what Sue Minter is offering, as our deficits and tax increases would only increase as they have with six years of Gov. Peter Shumlin. Minter's recent suggestion that 160 services might have to be considered for additional tax revenue evidences she doesn't realize we are living beyond our means.
Lt. Governor Phil Scott has also maintained close relationships with law enforcement and community organizations to monitor our public-health crisis involving heroin. To date, candidate Minter suggests we need only a “crisis manager” while having no substantive plan to address our public-health crisis.
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