Stop the Vermont Legislature’s Latest Tax Grab!

VERMONT. A bill now being considered in the Vermont Senate, if enacted, could seriously threaten private daycare providers in Vermont. It would also create added pressure for legislators to raise already high property tax rates, and could ultimately reduce choices for parents.

S. 132 requires public schools to consider setting up their own preschools at taxpayer expense. Daycare services would then be offered “free of charge,” directly and unfairly competing with hundreds of small businesses, run almost entirely by entrepreneurial women.

Proponents of the bill point out that S.132 allows for school districts to provide preschool services by contracting out to private providers, which is true. But this leaves the private providers completely at the mercy of the school districts. There is no guarantee and no obligation for public schools to include private providers at all. What’s more, private providers would be forced to overcome several regulatory hurdles to be able to qualify to be considered by the school districts in the first place – many will never meet these qualifications.

The bottom-line is liberal legislators in Vermont view this as a way to grab more tax money for the state’s ever-growing educational bureaucracy. They simply don’t care about the potential fall-out for taxpayers and many small business owners throughout the state.

This culture of spend, spend, spend has to stop! Government doesn’t have a revenue problem and it doesn’t need to find more ways to grab your tax dollars. Simply put, government has a spending problem and its up to you to put an end to it.

Take a stand against Vermont’s latest tax grab and take action today by clicking on the link below and sending an urgent message to your state Senator.

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