Bat Scam: The Latest Enviro Attack on Vermont’s Economy
Once again, it’s the exceptions that seem to make the rules.
Read MoreMr. Crandall goes to Vermont
Why did Tom Crandall make the effort to get in his car at 4 a.m. yesterday to drive to Montpe lier for an Act 60 meeting, and then turn around and drive home all in the same day?
Read MoreDr. Howard Dean’s Act 60 Makes Towns Sick
Honorable Howard Dean, M.D., Governor of Vermont, met with the people of Manchester and Dorset yesterday. Today it is the state’s #1 story. Newsworthy is Dean s attitude. In Clintonesque fashion of reassigning blame, Dean inferred that the victim towns of the Act 60 “shark pool “were too prosperous and must suffer. He told them they are “now going to struggle with the same terrible burden that other towns have had to struggle with for a long, long time.”
Read MoreA Nice Guy with A Bad Idea: Senator Leahy’s Northern Forest Stewardship Act
This article recently appeared in a publication of the Vermont Forest Products Association
Read MoreSongs to Revolt By (in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont)
I got a notice this week from Jeff Pascoe over in Vermont that the Act 60 website has added an “Act 60 Song.” Act 60 is the new school funding law with a state property tax that Vermont finds revolting, just as Maine did over 20 years ago. A good revolt needs a song. Remember Yankee Doodle? Well, in Maine in 1976 we produced a song during our state property tax battle too. We had it recorded at Noel Paul Stookey’s studio in Blue Hill (Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary), and he provided the music mix. In fact, we had written two songs, because we produced a two-sided, 45 rpm record with a dust jacket that explained what all the fuss was about. Those words, written by a talented wordsmith in the cause, stir my blood still. Here’s an excerpt, and I...
Read MoreState Property Tax Revolt Shakes Foundations of Government
Vermont’s revolt got the attention of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
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