MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) – On this day in history, Deane Davis was sworn in as Vermont governor and dropped a bombshell in his inaugural address.
It was January 9, 1969, and a Republican was back in charge for the first time in six years, but Davis shocked many when he proposed that Vermont adopt a state sales tax.
“A general sales tax, with sales for food home consumption exempt,” Davis said in his address.
There was a lot of grumbling about the idea, but the Republican majority in the went on to enact a sales tax in April of that year.
