About Fund Vermont’s Future
Fund Vermont’s Future is a coalition of organizations and individuals advocating for a cultural and political shift toward a state budget process that prioritizes the needs of all Vermonters and raises enough revenue to meet those needs.
Fair Share for Vermont is a proposal from the Fund Vermont’s Future Coalition.
Our budgeting process in Vermont is backwards. Fund Vermont’s Future is working to change that.
Currently, policymakers look at projections of how much revenue might come in based on the current tax structure, and then build a budget based on those numbers, which has often meant cutting needed services or deferring needed maintenance.
Instead, we should start with what we need and raise the revenue needed to meet those needs.
Policy makers should make sure that people who have been historically excluded or underrepresented are included in budgeting conversations, and that their voices, concerns, and needs are seriously addressed in the budget process.
The people’s money should be used for the people’s well-being. Our state budget is our people’s money, pooled together to meet our collective needs.