John McClaughry
John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.
Recent Stories
SCOTUS ObamaCare decision fallout may get ugly
Letter to the Editor
A leading leftist political group, Health Care for America Now, is mapping out a full bore media campaign to either celebrate or denounce the coming U.S. Supreme Court decision in the ObamaCare case, expected sometime in June.
Ethan Allen Institute: Health Insurance Exchange
Many members of the Vermont House uncomfortably confided that they really didn’t understand what they did last month, when they voted 88-38 to pass Gov. Shumlin’s health insurance exchange legislation (H.559). The bill is now under consideration in the Senate, so this easy to grasp format may prove helpful to legislators and citizens alike.
Ethan Allen Institute: Those school choice rascals
An evil plot is afoot to pressure the states to adopt “school choice schemes”, according to onetime Rutland Northeast Superintendent Dr. William J. Mathis. He is currently a Shumlin appointee to the Vermont State Board of Education and Managing Director of the grandly-named “National Education Policy Center” at the University of Colorado.
A judge stops the Vermont Legislature’s extortion ploy
On Jan. 20 Federal District Judge J. Garvan Murtha ruled that federal law preempts the state from regulating the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant over safety concerns.
John McClaughry: School Tax Sleight of Hand
Vermont’s educational finance law is amazingly complex. That complexity means there are many points within the law where small changes can produce quite different results.
John McClaughry: Merry fiscal Christmas!
The good news is that Vermont still has its AAA bond rating, one of only nine states to be so favored. The bad news, of course, is that the three private agencies that bestow these coveted ratings are the same agencies that cheerfully rated securities backed by toxic mortgages as ultrasafe investments in the run-up to the financial collapse of 2008.
Jefferson’s ‘profusion and servitude’
Ethan Allen Institute Report
The European banking system and stock markets, and therefore ours, are sinking from the increasing doubt that sovereign E.U. countries can pay their bondholders.
Opinion: Jefferson’s “profusion and servitude”
The European banking system and stock markets, and therefore ours, are sinking from the increasing doubt that sovereign EU countries can pay their bondholders. It’s worth taking a minute to consider the effect of public debt.
