Vermonters for Economic Health

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The Tax Foundation recently has issued it's 2010 State Business Tax Climate Report ranking the states.

10 Best:

1.South Dakota; 2. Wyoming; 3. Alaska;  4. Nevada; 5. Florida; 6. Montana; 7. New Hampshire;  8. Delaware; 9. Washington; 10. Utah

10 Worst (tax systems are most inhospitable to economic growth):

41. Vermont; 42. Wisconsin; 43. Minnesota; 44. Rhode Island; 45. Maryland; 46. Iowa; 47. Ohio; 48. California; 49. New York; 50. New Jersey

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Tom Licata, founder of Vermonters for Economic Health, authored this opinion piece which has also been sent to various Vermont media outlets.

Tinker Bell is the fairy in the play Peter Pan, who is revived from near death by the belief of the audience. The Tinkerbell effect describes those things that exist only because people believe in them. More on this later…

It was those same feelings of two years ago that drew me to the steps of our nation’s Capitol for the September 12th March on Washington DC. Many interpretations have been given as to why some 100,000 Americans came from all corners of our country in peaceful protest. My interpretation dates back to those feelings of two years ago.

For it was almost two years ago to this day, on October 7, 2007, that I founded what is now Vermonters for Economic Heath. Statewide in both the Burlington Free Press and on radio, I advertised this fact and our website, found at www.vteh.org. Our organization traveled the state and using facts and statistics, we presided over more than a dozen “Town Meeting Forums,” presenting both Vermont’s and our nation’s dire economic condition. All Vermont legislators were invited. I’ve written numerous articles on this subject. Thousand’s of dollars of my personal savings were used to finance this venture.

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Lisa Ventriss, President of the Vermont Business Roundtable writes concerning the recent document from Vermont Public Interest Research Group recommending closing Vermont Yankee.

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal opens with the paragraph below: