Voices’ Executive Director Carlen Finn calls for temporary tax increases to make sure we get through this tough economic time without making it harder on the children and families

This isn’t your average tax protest: A group of Vermonters is urging the state to raise taxes as a way to save state programs now on the chopping block.

Kathy Kilcourse of Montpelier arrived at the building housing the Department of Taxes shortly before 10 Wednesday morning to join a small crowd declaring their willingness to pay a bit more in taxes to save state programs.

Upset over government spending and high taxes, protesters held a modern-day Boston Tea Party.

A Democratic lawmaker wants to revive the income tax increase that the late Republican Gov. Richard Snelling persuaded lawmakers to enact to help the state cope with a 1991 financial crisis.