Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smith presently serves on the Commerce Committee where his legislative interests have centered on business and taxation in Vermont. His activities on the committee have resulted in working relationships between him and more conservative elements in the Legislature, a position which might seem odd on the surface since Smith is the youngest representative in the state...
...However, Smith declines to place himself along the liberal-conservative political spectrum. On several key issues, some of which he has personally initiated, Smith is in strong agreement with seasoned conservatives and seeks their assistance...
These working relationships, based on what Smith calls "mutual respect," are useful because he feels they allow his own views, even if they are decidedly liberal, to receive a genuinely fair hearing from conservative legislators...
...Smith's top-priority bill this coming legislative session, which begins in January, will require that he "play ball" with both poles of the Legislature to gain support...
...bill, which is Smith's own brainchild, would disassociate the financing of local schools from the revenue obtained by the state's local property tax. Instead, citizens would pay an amount equal to a percentage of their federal income tax to support the school system. Particular aspects of the bill appeal naturally to both conservatives, who support property tax relief and liberals, who feel the new local income tax would be more equitable...