By Marc Joffe, includes “The Pension Benefits, Design, and Funding Task Force created by the Vermont General Assembly is expected to release its findings in December.  … Truth in Accounting recently ranked Vermont 43rd of the 50 states based on its measure of ‘Taxpayer Surplus or Burden’ with a per capita burden of $24,000.  … Hopefully, the combination of information flow and revenue flow will give Vermont the opportunity to address its retirement system funding challenges in a sustainable manner.”