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Vermont to Tax Heating Fuel?

Want to know just how Vermont liberals think? In an effort to show that Vermont is "concerned" about global warning, Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Shumlin -- someone I used to respect -- has, along with his corrupt cronies, decided to tax home heating fuel. Even the Hanoi Free Press finds it a bad idea:

...That's why it makes no sense that the Senate's first major proposal targeting climate change would include a tax on heating fuel, a tax that hits hardest those who can least afford it because the cold doesn't know rich from poor. A tax on heating fuel is a plan no one can love, especially in the dead of winter right after one of the biggest snowstorms in state history.

The proposal again shows there's a disconnect between the Statehouse and ordinary Vermonters who foot the bills who have been saying, "Enough!"

But heating oil? Staying warm in the Winter is not an option, it's a requirement for living in the state. Heating oil (and LP for that matter) are already at near record highs and short of tearing down all the big 100-year-old farmhouses in the state, there isn't much that homeowners can do about their heating bills. Sure, a bit of insulation here, better windows there. The fact remains that most can't afford to do even that, much less bear a (estimated five cents a gallon) heating oil tax.

But as always, in Vermont and elsewhere, for Democrats it's all about figuring out new ways to bleed the average citizen with more and greater taxes. My landlord has told me quite bluntly that the reason my rent went up the last two years is because of the cost of heating the building I live in. I'm already paying almost half my salery for the roof over my head.

I used to think Shumlin was a pretty good guy. Now I think he's just another tax-and-spend creep in the State House. As President Reagan used to say, "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem."

No doubt all the limo-liberals that move to Vermont to live the "country lifestyle" in their new 6,000 square foot homes will embrace this new tax in order to show how they're "doing something" for the planet.