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Vermont lawmakers and labor officials are keeping a close eye on Washington, hoping that a deal on additional COVID-19 assistance can prevent thousands of Vermonters from losing their unemployment benefits
They generally have a fairly large state workforce. and a lot of those guys, a lot of those women are regulators. they're people that run the red tape. that's what the taxes pay for. and so it isn't just the high taxes. it's the regulations. now the other thing that's happened in the last 11 months you see increase in growth in the states with low taxes. and i think a lot of this is because of the big tax cuts signed into law about a year ago by president trump. now, a big part of that tax cut was a limitation on the state local tax deduction that individual filers have. it limits it to 10,000...
Some of the worst political rhetoric telling middle class families if you have a down's syndrome kid they will be suffering. stop campaigning, mr. president and start leading on this issue of the deficit. alisyn: your critics have pointed out you are none immune to budget problems. state debt increased from $28 billion to $51 billion. >> i started out with a $5 billion deficit i inherited. my last budget had a $2.3 billion surplus. and we had the highest credit rating in 40 years in the state of new york. we reduced the state workforce by 15%. the debt went off at the rate of inflation. it was...
Social and economic changes there since the cuban revolution. i'm talking about a relatively rare occurrence. a congress of the communist party in havana. cnn international, real lisa has the story. we're talking changes that could shift the entire country. >> well, they could and they could not. we have an inkling of what this would be last fall when president raul castro said the cube an model doesn't work form us anymore. it's inevitable. he's going to cut 20% of the state workforce. bear in mind that 80%, 90% of the people work for the state in cuba. everything is dominated by the state. 2...