Anthony Pollina: Middle class needs tax reform, not budget cuts

Editor’s note: This commentary is by state Sen. Anthony Pollina, P-Washington, of Middlesex, who is the interim chair of the Vermont Progressive Party.Gov. Phil Scott had already told agency heads to propose budgets with spending cuts of 2 percent to 4 percent. And now some legislators have quickly begun considering budget cuts as the only response to lower than expected revenues. Sound familiar? It should. We’ve been down this road before and we are bound to end up in the same place