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Phil Scott: “The biggest obstacle we face to economic sustainability is a…”

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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott's 2024 State of the State Address

Published | Video Starts at 20:19

If this sounds familiar, it's because you heard it from me in 2017 when I said The biggest obstacle we face to economic sustainability is a shrinking workforce. In 18, I said demographic trends are shifting the tax burden onto fewer and fewer people. Again. In 20, I said our demographic crisis is without question, question, the greatest challenge we challenge we face as a state. (20:19–20:26)

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Asserts that Vermont's shrinking workforce is the main challenge to economic sustainability.

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