Jeff Dickson: Scott’s surplus tax buy-down smokescreen

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jeff Dickson, of Jamaica, who is the former publisher and editor of The Original Vermont Observer and Southern Vermont Adventures Magazine and the former editor of the Manchester Journal.When it comes to protecting our democracy what could be more important than educated citizen voters? Can our American way of life survive without an informed and engaged electorate? To this end we created public schools.
Sadly, our nonpartisan neglect of public educatio