The Public Assets Institute supports democracy by helping Vermonters understand and keep informed about what their government is doing, especially how it is raising and spending money and using other public assets.
PAI conducts research, performs fiscal analysis, and develops policies that mobilize the power and financial resources of government to advance the public good.
PAI educates. We provide journalists, advocates, government officials, and ordinary citizens with sound, timely, and understandable analyses of state budgets and taxes, and of the fiscal implications of public policy options.
PAI promotes wide democratic discussion of these issues, so that public policy improves the wellbeing of all citizens, especially the most vulnerable.
PAI is independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit.
Please contact us with your thoughts and ideas.
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.“
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1902-32)
