Hoffer Dispels Dubie’s Tax Fiction

Doug Hoffer is fully engaged in his campaign against the hapless Tom Salmon; and he isn’t sparing Brian Dubie any slack either:

“It is disingenuous to talk about Vermont’s ‘income tax’ for the simple reason that Vermont does not have one income tax,” Hoffer wrote, in a press statement. “It has a progressive tax system so residents pay at very different rates depending on their income. I am certain Mr. Dubie knows this so it makes me wonder why he would use such language.”

Dubie’s recent claim that Vermonter’s income tax rate is higher than that of Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island is just plain misleading, says Hoffer.  As evidence, he offers a breakdown of income tax in Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts (excluding RI, for which equivalent information was not available), which demonstrates that, for instance, a married homeowner with two kids who earns $80,743. pays roughly half as much in income tax as he/she would in either Maine or Massachusetts.

In the world of facts and figures that the Auditor’s role entails, Tom Salmon must be having serious misgivings about his relationship to the vaporous Mr. Dubie who’s oddly disloyal mantra of “Vermont is bad for business” adds little luster to his own weak performance on the job.

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

13 thoughts on “Hoffer Dispels Dubie’s Tax Fiction

  1. While reclaiming the Auditor’s Office for reasoned, fact-based, rational analyis from Salmon and his self-serving fuzzy-headed hyperbole he jumps in to take down Dubie and his empty fear-based sloganeering at the same time?  Is there anything Mr Hoffer can’t do?

  2. at the unprofessional and unknowledgable Salmon & Dubie, to say the very least. VT deserves better. Hopefully voters will vote better this year.

    Good to see candidate Hoffer putting his skill to work on Dubie’s erroneous tax information.

    I noticed in Chester’s mess made by the town manager & the time he

    Hopefully both of their poor job performance records will become well known for their slackness & what VT can expect from these two in the future.  

  3. Hoffer’s not cut from the same cloth as the majority of the political poseurs in Montpelier. That’s why Vermonters need Doug in Montpelier, instead of jerks like the drunken warrior.

    Keep telling it like it is Doug. If the news people won’t educate us about the facts, then please do all you can to do that job for them.  

  4. On April 9, 2010, Brian Dubie’s Tax Commissioner, Richard Westman, was interviewed by Bob Kinzel on Vermont Public Radio.  This is what he said.  Word for word.  Astonishing!  

  5. “I am appalled (4.00 / 3)

    at the unprofessional and unknowledgable Salmon & Dubie, to say the very least. VT deserves better. Hopefully voters will vote better this year.”

    Judging by the number of Dubie for Governor signs out in front yards, I would not count on it.  

  6. I hope Hoffer cleans Salmon’s clock on this race.  Salmon is dangerously unstable as evidenced by his public coments.

    The R message of “Vermont is bad for business” needs to be rejected by the D’s.  This is a great shot at the false claims of higher taxes in VT.  

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