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Tax policy and the dirty words of 2025

January 3, 2025: In the new year's first episode, Olga and Emilie geek out on tax policy. Emilie shares her thoughts on how taxes can help Vermonters' household budgets and outlines tax policies likely to hit the wall for the new legislative session. We also share what we think will be the dirty words in the State House this year. Oh, and there's a bunny sighting. 

Learn more about Public Assets Institute's three-part plan for property tax relief: https://publicassets.org/research-publications/property-tax-relief-for-vermonters

Follow the work of the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont: https://education.vermont.gov/state-board-councils/commission-on-the-future-of-public-education

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.