Pat Political: What Governor Platform Should Be-3

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A Real Health Cae System for Vermont
Vermont needs a single-payer, universal Health Care system financed by an income tax on all income generated in Vemont.
Biomass Fuel
We need a biomass fuel economy in Vermont, with hemp grown for vegetable diesel fuel and waste vegetation fermented for ethanol. Biomass fuel is a triple win for Vermont. It will cut the pollution of petroleum products, provide the basis for many local businesses, and cut the cost of oil and gasoline in half.
Education
I want to see Vemont schools today as good as were the one-room schools of sixty years ago.
Electoral reform
We need IRV for instate voting and proportional allocation in the Electoral College. IRV offers Vermonters the best way to indicate their full preferences and at the same time to keep elections within the electoral process.
Taxes
Taxes shouldn't be "high" or "low", but what is required to pay for what we need, and should be on real wealth.

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What Governor Platform Should Be-3

We presently fund education through property taxes.

Interestingly, if we were to achieve some sort of single payer universal health care system, property taxes for education would be lower immediately, since health care expense for teachers is one of the largest school budget items.

But the real question is whether in our time education should be funded by property taxes at all.

Governor Douglas has said that we should continue to fund education through property taxes because it is traditional to do so.

But at that earlier time ownership of property equated with wealth. And it was an equitable solution to have the wealth of the community pay the costs of education. Today many people own property who are not wealthy.

Wealth today is expressed in income. Once again to let the wealth of the community fund the costs of education would seem the equitable solution.

Therefore a mandatory tiered education tax on all income generated in Vermont, including that of the out of state owned corporations like Wal-mart would seem appropriate.

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