Legalize and Commercialize Marijuana ending the last vestiges of prohibition,
removing the profits from the criminal marketplace, while assuring that products allowed create no heightened danger to our citizens and allowing Law Enforcement to concentrating on eliminating "hard drugs" and their criminal purveyors.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Education:
Reject Common Core; protect local control
Brief Outline of the Issues: Education - Support and Protect Local Control and Locally Based Schools
- Improve Educational Experience by restoring traditional subjects.
- Support Teacher's innovative and creative efforts.
- Reject "Common Core" curriculum and its mandatory "teaching to the test."
- Insure that High School students possess the necessary knowledge and skills to flourish after graduation.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Energy & Oil:
Develop alternative energy if affordable and reliable
Brief Outline of the Issues: Energy Conservation and Affordability- Support Energy Efficiency and Conservation Efforts.
- Develop Affordable Energy Resources (biomass, solar, hydro and small scale wind).
- Restrain the expansion of expensive and unreliable "Industrial Wind" projects.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Environment:
Fund program for fertilizer runoff to reduce water pollution
Brief Outline of the Issues: Agriculture and Farming- Continue Support for "Vermont Made" and "Farm-to-Table" promotion efforts.
- Amend Inheritance Tax Law to provide exemptions for closely held and family owned farms and businesses.
- Continue Property Tax Relief for Vermont Farmers through the land use program.
- Encourage and Support Farm Education Programs through youth groups including Future Farmers of America and 4-H Clubs.
- Provide Financial Support to Improve Control of Fertilizer Run-off to Reduce and Eliminate Water Pollution.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Government Reform:
Implement ethics and transparency rues for state government
Brief Outline of the Issues: Ethics and Transparency in Government- Develop, implement and enforce Ethics Rules for the Legislative (Senate) & Executive Branches.
- Make the "Financial Records" of the state accessible
on-line to improve transparency and restore citizen confidence that the state is being run efficiently free of waste corruption and fraud.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Health Care:
Reject single-payer healthcare and Vermont Health Connect
Brief Outline of the Issues: Healthcare- Reject Single Payer as an unnecessary intrusion into personal and professional relationship between patient and provider - Prevent Single Payer takeover of healthcare providers.
- Reform or discontinue Certificates of Need (CON) process which will increase competition, availability of services and reduce healthcare costs.
- Implement Tort Reform to Protect Providers from artificial and frivolous lawsuits, reduce liability insurance costs and ultimately reduce healthcare costs.
- Replace Vermont Health Connect (VHC) with an open marketplace operated by the state
Insurance Department to provide information on available commercial policies allowing side-by-side comparison of rates, coverage, deductibility, co-pays, limits and exclusions.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Principles & Values:
Nominee for Secretary of State (won 4 other nominations too)
Brooke Paige is a Republican candidate running for Vermont Secretary of State. Paige advanced to the general election on November 6, 2018, after advancing from the primary election on August 14, 2018. Paige also advanced from the
August 14 primary in the following races: U.S. House, Attorney General, State Auditor, and State Treasurer. He withdrew from these races in August 2018.Candidates in Vermont can file to run in the primary contests for multiple offices.
They may only choose one office for which to run in the general election, after which the party may nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy on the general election ballot.
Paige was a Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont in the 2016 election.
He was also a 2016 candidate for state attorney general. He lost both races in the August 9 primary. Paige previously ran for the same two positions in 2014. He was also a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate, running as a Republican in that campaign.
Source: Ballotpedia.org on 2018 Vermont Senate race
Aug 14, 2018
On Tax Reform:
Vermont should not be the "Land of Endless Taxes"
Brief Outline of the Issues: Finance, Taxation and Revenue- Vermont is rapidly gaining the reputation of being the "Land of Endless Taxes" raising and extending collections in nearly every area. Income Taxes, Property Taxes,
Sales Tax, Motor Vehicle Fees/Taxes, Cigarette/Tobacco Taxes, Liquor Tax - almost everything is fair game. We must bring expenses and expenditures under control to allow us to reduce tax demands
- Investigate the establishing of a State Bank to manage state funds and create a more affordable method for marketing bonds.
- Investigate the establishment of Emergency Warrants to be used to satisfy creditors should Vermont find itself in a period of exigency allowing the state to bridge a period of income (revenue) shortfall.
Source: 2018 Vermont Senate campaign website BrookePaige.us
Aug 14, 2018
On Environment:
Farmers are unfairly blamed for fertilizer pollution
On water quality issues, Lawrence Zupan said new farming technologies such as "precision injection fertilizer" which would allow phosphates to stay on the farmland and out of
the lakes. "That means that the farmers can now focus the exact amount in the exact location at the exact time the fertilizer for the exact crop," he said.
Brook Paige offered a different take, claiming that farmers are being unfairly blamed for phosphorus in the Lake. "Unfortunately, the news media and the advocates have all pointed to the farmer,
as if the farmers' biggest desire is to pour the valuable phosphates that are supposed to feed his crops into the river and allow his topsoil, his big investment, go the same way."
Source: True North Reports on 2018 Vermont Senate debates
Jul 27, 2018
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