Symbols, not substance, are important?

The Rutland Herald editorializes on what the legislature should do after the Governor vetoes the Vermont Yankee tax bill and concludes

It is clear that Vermont's contribution toward addressing the climate crisis will not be in the quantitative reduction of the state's emissions. Rather, Vermont's contribution will be by example.

So let me get this straight.  We should force Vermont residents and businesses to spend money on a program that will have no real impact, and that's more important than forcing Vermont residents and businesses to spend money on programs that will have real impacts by _________ (fill in the blank with any of  the following:  cleaning up Lake Champlain, fixing the state's roads and bridges, providing child care and early education to low income Vermonters, paying for health care for uninsured, providing scholarships to low income Vermonters, providing new energy efficient buses for mass transit, providing broadband access to rural parts of Vermont, training laid off workers and giving them skills, ......)

Just wondering..

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[Vermont Woodchuck]

...on programs that will have real impacts by _________...

How about tossing trustfunded flatlanders out of the state, so we can start businesses that belong in the 21st century. We have enough of the B&B's and candlemaking shops.