In a recent VT Digger opinion piece, ironically titled: “listen to the majority, not the gun lobby,” Clai Lasher-Sommers, executive director of the gun control group Gun Sense VT, lamented what she described as political capitulation by governor Phil Scott – the same Republican governor who signed into law a massive package of infringements in […]
Both Vermont Governor Scott and President Trump have supported red flag laws. Recently Governor Scott sent a letter to top US Senate Republicans urging them to support expanding such measures… The Libertarian Party supports the individual right recognized by the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms, and oppose the prosecution of individuals for exercising […]
The Libertarian Party supports the removal of governmental impediments to free trade. Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders. This would imply that policies such […]
The other day the VTLP posted an opinion piece about immigration protests and advocated the abolition of ICE, the federal agency tasked with immigration and customs enforcement. This sparked a heated debate on their Facebook page (original post below) with strong opinions hurled angrily in each direction across cyberspace as is what generally happens in […]
Today the new tobacco laws go into affect here in Vermont prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21… The Libertarian Party believes that government force must be limited to the protection of the rights of individuals to life, liberty, and property, and governments must never be permitted to violate […]
