John McClaughry: VPIRG’s new appliance prohibition plan

Editor’s note: This commentary is by John McClaughry, the vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute.A recent announcement from the Vermont Public Interest Research Group brought back vivid memories of a long- forgotten legislative episode of 25 years ago.
The announcement came two weeks ago in a webinar sponsored by VPIRG and its ally, the Vermont Natural Resource Council. The purpose of the webinar was to build support for their most recent plan to lay millions of dollars of new taxes o