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By Guy Page
The Vermont Department of Taxes on Monday released its annual December 1 projection, estimating an average statewide property tax increase of 11.9% for 2026.
Details from the report were made public by Gov. Phil Scott shortly after noon. The report projects an expected $115 million rise in school spending and an increase of nearly $1,000 per pupil — a jump of 6.8%.
Governor Phil Scott called the findings unacceptable and said policymakers must rein in spending growth.
“Without intervention from Montpelier and/or school boards reducing spending growth, Vermonters will face an average 12% increase next year,” the governor said in a statement. “It should come as no surprise that I find this totally unacceptable, as I’ve been ringing the alarm – and proposing meaningful reforms – for years.”
Scott said education taxes have risen more than 40% over the last five years while student enrollment, performance, and educational opportunities have declined. He urged lawmakers to fully implement Act 73, which directs structural changes in school governance and sets the state on a path toward a “more affordable and higher-quality system.”
To move forward, Scott said the Legislature must establish a “modern, equitable governance structure” that reflects decades of declining enrollment and directs more resources into classrooms rather than overhead.
“The continued growth in our property taxes is unsustainable and unaffordable for Vermonters across the state, and is forcing school districts to make difficult cuts that are impacting our students,” House Speaker Jill Krowinski said. “Last year, we passed comprehensive legislation to transform our education system and today’s property tax projection is a reminder why this critical effort must continue. There are more tough conversations and difficult decisions ahead, and we must keep Vermont’s kids at the center.”
Senate Minority Leader Scott Beck (R-Caledonia) echoed the governor’s warning and said the spending trend has reached a breaking point.
“Education property taxes have risen 41% over the past five years. This is not acceptable,” Beck said in a statement emailed to media shortly after noon on Monday. “What we cannot support are proposals that ask for even more taxes from already overburdened taxpayers. Vermont doesn’t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem.”
Beck said the projected tax spike is not inevitable. School districts can still reduce proposed budgets, and lawmakers could use General Fund dollars to offset tax bills — though those funds are also needed for public safety, housing, healthcare and other services.
Republicans cited declining test scores, shrinking post-secondary enrollment, a rising dropout rate and the highest staffing ratio in the country (3.4 students per staffer, including administration) as signs that high spending is not producing better outcomes.
Lt. Gov. John Rodgers favors better sharing of services among schools.
“Real reform requires confronting the drivers of spending—declining enrollment, unfunded mandates, staffing pressures, and outdated governance,” Rodgers said. “We need a statewide approach that modernizes operations, shares services, demands accountability, and aligns resources with today’s realities.
“And we must never forget who pays the bill: the single parent in Barre, the retired couple in Rutland, the young family in St. Albans, the small business owner in the Northeast Kingdom. They deserve a predictable and affordable system, not a yearly shock that leaves them wondering whether they can stay in the state they love.”
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Headline expanded: “Statewide property tax projected to rise 12% next year- while voters continue to maintain a democrat majority in the legislature”. Could this budget issue possibly be a consequence?
At least it’s not a Democratic Supermajority or we would all be screwed.
With this proposed twelve percent increase in next years property tax bills, it was a good thing I bought a new pair of boots this year on Black Friday or I would be barefoot next year. Looks like the boots increased at least fifty percent in price from the last purchase.
Headline fixed:
BREAKING: Statewide property tax projected to infinity
How about – to infinity and beyond?
At 12% using the rule of 72, we will have a 100% increase in only 6 years. This is run away tax inflation. It is part of the CCP, One World Governance, Muslim Totalitarian – call it what you may – Global Tyranny agenda. “We the People” are Screwed.
I disagree, hhilltop: This is our governance… prescribed by our families, friends and neighbors. We/they elect the administrators and legislators who perpetuate this fraud. It’s up to us to elect better representation. We the People are screwing ourselves.
An aside: I wrote a letter to the VDC editor about this [We have met the enemy and he is us] a few weeks ago. But VDC either chose or inadvertently decided not to publish it. I may resubmit it at some point.
H. Jay, I contend that the problem is that the biggest (by far) voting block of We the People are them members of the VT-NEA and the VSEA public sector unions. They vote in those that feed them . . . the rest of us are screwed.
beaulac34885bb993: You are spot on. It’s a tyranny by the majority.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” C.S. Lewis
But that doesn’t offset the need for the rest of us to continue to try to convince that majority (our friends and neighbors) that they are cutting themselves off at the knees. They are failing. They are already bankrupt. They should see the writing on the wall. If they don’t, it’s Plan B.
It won’t be long now until the Vermont public education system completely implodes.
Out last them.
This is insane. Just had a 10% property tax increase. Adding that to this 12%, that’s 22% in one year. To top that off, they raised property values as well therby increasing property taxes even more ( a hidden tax increase. What is wrong with these people? Property in VT is a cash cow for these very stupid people that control everyone. Oh yes Cina (in a VDC article) is to increase taxes on corporations, which will be higher costs on products and services. Talk about draining the swamp, drain the cess pool. This is criminal activity, theft by “legal” means. Many criminals have more respect than the Montpelier governance.
Good Lord. Vermont is truly off the rails.
May God save this poor state and the poor souls who manage to still somehow live there.
Socialism has destroyed VT & the “democrat- socialists who occupy it are “fixing” one of the few choice states of the Union that never needed fixing to begin with as
Vermont ONCE:
1.) Was the safest state
2.) Had one of the top five school systems of the 50 states
3.) Held the most residents with health care insurance
4.) Was one of the top three healthiest states with the greatest longevity
5.) Was GENUINELY a truly liberal state that early on had female legislators and promoted black applicants at UVM – no “DEI” warranted.
6.) Had a small, rural population that supported one other – included newcomers who sought only to integrate & live peaceably.
Instead, now the Green MT state is in a STATE of turmoil and dysfunction, proving only that this is how the new hypocritical, radical, and USA-loathing invaders & politicos roll.
Well in my humble opinion, we need to look at who we elect to represent us. Let’s start with Bernie, maybe when he first started his politics, he said that he was for the little guy meaning us VTrs. But not anymore now that he has become a millionaire. He makes politics his career as well as Patrick Leahy, he was more than 50 years in office. Peter Welch, he has also been in there for a while. The reason why I feel that they have been in so long is because when others try to go up against them, they usually lose because voting has become a popularity contest. Same with instate elections, there are quite a few at the state level who have been in there for a long time. In my opinion I think that we need to set term limits both on the state and federal levels. Then maybe we could get others who really want to represent us who genuinely care about the little guy and what our best interests are, instead of just making it a career. I will say that I believe that there are some who are in the legislative officials who genuinely care but then there are those who make careers out of being in politics. Let’s give other’s a chance to make a difference not just the same people, day in and day out.
Serfdom…how about the citizens putting a bounty on the heads of the lawmakers that makes serfs out of property owners.
Elon and doge went through the fed govt. didn’t reduce enough and when one asked Phil Scott about doge in vermont he redirected and said we have more important issues. Well this is important now Scott. We can’t sustain these hikes. I couldn’t care about the school enlistment and or college enrollment. Then revisit and do your job to revise the budget and balance with no increased taxes. This is disgusting for Vermonters. Stop spending and shut down the hand outs.
If the AOE budget is $2.5 billion (never mind that the AOE’s own documents set that budget at $2.7 billion) and the property tax supporting that budget is going to increase by 12% this year, what happens if the education budget increases at that rate for the ten-year period the AOE’s Task Force projects it needs to figure things out?
Answer: The education budget will be approximately $7.76 billion in year ten. If student enrollments don’t continue to decline, that will be approximately $107,777 annually per student.
Heck, it will only costs $80 thousand to attend Harvard next year, including living expenses.
That increase alone, if the rate of increase holds steady year in and year out and all other budget items don’t increase at all, will increase Vermont’s entire annual budget, currently set at $9.1 billion, to $16.86 billion. That will be approximately $26,340 per capita, …if Vermont’s population doesn’t decline.
What, me worry?
Again:
“When the incentives are perfectly aligned, year after year, decade after decade, it doesn’t matter whether you call it a conspiracy or structural design. The outcome is the same: a system that reliably converts instructional failure into labeled disabilities, then converts those labels into protected revenue and protected jobs.”
This is a ‘racket’ folks. We’re being robbed in broad daylight by thieves wielding spreadsheets.
I drive past the school in my town, where there are 178 students, pre-K thru 8. There are at least 65 vehicles in the parking lot. This is a little different than the 13-1 student teacher ratio that they brag about, unless half of the eighth graders are old enough to drive themselves to school.
Dan, that’s a student-‘teacher’ ratio. It doesn’t count the staff catagories I gleaned from the AOE edu-teacher-staff-fte-report-fy20-fy21.
-Paraprofessionals
-Attendance and Social Work Personnel
-Guidance Counselors/Directors
-Nurses
-School Psychologists
-Educational Speech/Language Pathologists
-Audiologists
-Occupational Therapists
-Student Assistance Program Coordinators
-Home School Coordinators
-School Registrars
-School Clerical Staff
-Nurses Aides
-Behavior Specialists
-Physical Therapists
-Interpreters
-Mental Health Counselors
-Athletic Directors
-Education Technologists
-Behavior Interventionists
-Reading Interventionists
-Math Interventionists
-School Based Clinicians
-Title 1 Coordinators
-PreK Coordinators
-Curriculum Directors
-EEE Directors
-ESL Coordinators
-Work Study/Work Based Learning Coordinators
-Librarians
-School Library Support Staff
-Special Education Directors
-CTE Education/Adult Education Directors
-In-service Training Staff (for non-instructional personnel)
-Principals
-Assistant Principals
-Department Heads
-School IT Director/Managers
-School IT Support Staff
-Superintendents
-Assistant Superintendents
-SU/SD Clerical Staff
-Bookkeepers
-Business Managers
-Human Resource Personnel
-SU/SD IT Director/Managers
-SU/SD IT Support Staff
-Planning/Research/Development Staff
-SU/SD Bookkeepers
-Enterprise Operations Staff
-Community Services Operations Staff
-Food Service Staff
-Maintenance and Security Staff
-Student Transportation (Bus Drivers)
-Facilities Acquisition and Construction Staff
Vermont has the highest staff to student ratio in the country – by far.
Again:
“When the incentives are perfectly aligned, year after year, decade after decade, it doesn’t matter whether you call it a conspiracy or structural design. The outcome is the same: a system that reliably converts instructional failure into labeled disabilities, then converts those labels into protected revenue and protected jobs.”
And we’ve not discussed the defined benefit retirement programs these folks receive. There are estimated to be between 15 to 20 thousand current staff on the AOE employee list, and 35 thousand retired staff.
That’s quite a voting bloc. And it explains why recent commenters, who are former school officials don’t want to hear anything about School Choice governance.
So the student to staff ratio must be about 2.5 -1. If so, then it’s not surprising why the education is so expensive in this state. But please correct me if I am wrong.
The student staff ratio is about 5 students to 1 staff. Highest nationally; driven by support roles (5.9 per 100).
But the 5 to 1 ratio is understated (it’s closer to 4 to 1), because the student enrollments include parttime 3, 4 and 5 year old pre-K students as well some adult students.
Keep in mind that while AOE data says there are 80,000+- students in the public system, there are only 72,100+- K thru 12th graders. And approximately 10,000 of them attend publicly funded independent schools.
All of this sounds so familiar, as if we have discussed this before. Maybe last spring when this whole school districting was about to start. I see that the state has done nothing to try to reduce these costs. Crazy times, for sure.
Our state is not run by our elected officials, it is run by unions, NGO’s, lobbyists and non-profits all under the guise of free education, affordable healthcare and affordable housing, all at the same time said people are filling their pockets with tax payer money, it’s gotten so ridiculous that we have come to our current situation, no homes, extravagant budgets for health care and education with terrible outcomes. This is Marxism, this is how it always works, just ask Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Somalia, Haiti……sh$t hole ideas lead to sh$ t hole countries. We need to change direction.
Here is a clip from Elon Musk, basically saying are you adding value to society, is your output more than your input….are you creating rather than taking.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/12/01/elon-musk-anyone-who-wants-to-make-more-than-they-take-has-my-respect-elons-advice-for-entrepreneurs/
This is at odds with the current philosophy and on the ground practices Vermont finds it self in with regard to housing, education and health care. Our outputs in all areas are significantly less than all the inputs the Vermont tax payers are contributing.
This is also the difference between capitalism and marxism. One creates the other grifts money, skims from the top to pay for “management” that doesn’t contribute.
In the real world this doesn’t function long, because the restaurant goes bankrupt, in the government by the government, for the government……it goes until there is a revolt on the oppressive taxation without representation.
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/12/01/elon-musk-anyone-who-wants-to-make-more-than-they-take-has-my-respect-elons-advice-for-entrepreneurs/
Dan, I’ve been publishing this information on VDC for years now. And I’ve recommended a simple solution. But no one seems to be catching on. Please read my missive published in:
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/thurston-paying-the-price-for-dei-in-schools-on-streets-at-border/
…and, if you agree with me, email the Senate Education Committee at the cited address.
…and then ask your friends to do the same.
If you don’t agree with me, please explain why and what your better alternative might be so we can stop this train wreck.
I agree with you. I do believe that statewide school choice should be implemented. Many years ago I put my youngest in a private school because his fourth grade had no way to teach gifted children. She then told us that she didn’t like kids that age.(4th grade) the next week he was out of public school. Thanks.
Remember Dan, School Choice doesn’t prescribe ‘private schools’. Choice is choice. Be it a public school, private school, homeschool, or some combination thereof.
Opponents of School Choice often claim that it is an attack on public schools and teacher unions. School Choice is NOT an attack on public schools any more than an attack on or advocacy for any other school.
School Choice is a free-market educational laboratory in which educational programs, old and new, are compared to one another, with parents choosing those programs they believe best meet the needs of their children at the lowest cost.
We went with a private school because there was no choice. The money came out of our pockets and I believe it was well worth the investment. This was back in 1996.
Throwing good money to lower student enrollment and declining test scores. Oh, but this time things will improve. They promise.
Had enough yet? We are funding schooling organizations. Our commitment is to a educated citizenry. It’s not working…its a failed business. Let’s get out of the schooling business and support learners directly. Cut the per pupil figure to the national average, give it to families, let them hire the teachers/schools they want.
Seems like we need a 50% cut in education across the board.
These people are insane. These people are criminal.
Yes. But how do you propose we make that 50% cut?
“Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?” ― Obi Wan Kenobi
This response is more to H. Jay. No one is talking about the elephant in the room, astronomically high healthcare costs and pensions. Cut anyone “newer” to the system to reduce at least the healthcare cost. Also, implementing your school choice plans, would also most likely greatly reduce those costs, moving forward. (the assumption that students would go elsewhere–reducing public school staff/costs) However, I advocate 1000% for school choice as the VT Leg wants to force parents into the failed public system to keep the dollars flowing. If something is dead/dying (Vt public schools) let it go…..
CWilliams: I have, indeed, addressed this point. Many times.
This is what I said above:
“And we’ve not discussed the defined benefit retirement programs these folks receive. There are estimated to be between 15 to 20 thousand current staff on the AOE employee list, and 35 thousand retired staff.”
The problem is the result of the government’s ‘defined benefit’ healthcare and retirement programs.
The reason healthcare costs are high is because the public-school monopoly considers itself a bottomless pit of taxpayer funding. In a ‘defined benefit’ program taxpayers assume all of the risks. If the investment fund performs poorly, taxpayers are on the hook to make up the difference.
In a ‘defined contribution’ program, like most of us have, our employers contribute to a healthcare policy or retirement fund that we control. The employer does not assume responsibility for how we manage our own affairs.
And when we manage our own affairs (spending our own money, not someone else’s) we make more prudent investment decisions (i.e., investing in the best performing programs at lowest cost). Thus, healthcare and investment vendors must compete for our business by actually performing better at lower cost too.
This aspect is the basis for what I’m sure everyone can recall as Health Savings Accounts and self-directed investment strategies. It also brings into the mix ESAs (Education Savings Accounts), in which a fixed contribution is provided to parents as they choose the best education for their children at the lowest cost. If they can establish an education program without spending their allotted voucher, they keep the money in their education fund to be used for future college or vocational education costs.
In other words, parents and employees are incentivized to choose efficiency rather than being forced to subsidize ever increasing protected revenue and inefficient (but nonetheless protected) government jobs.
A devalued fiat currency and bond debts signal increasing rates…why don’t they disclose the real reason costs are rising? The US dollar purchasing power diminished. The USA is no longer a good credit risk because of debt and thieves running the corporation pretending to be a represenative government.
How will they spin the “affordability” nonsense with tax rates going double digits year over year? Why not sell off the public school system off to the technocrats – they own large tracts of land, public works systems, and most of the government anyway. Why not Palantir Elementary or Amazon High School?
No surprises here when the majority party running the legislature is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the VT-NEA and the VSEA public sector unions. Public sector unions should not be allowed to exist, but have since the days of JFK. Of course, the biggest culpability goes to those who vote for these democrats and progressives. Enjoy your bigger tax bill, moonbats.
I started school in 1956, graduated in 1969. Around 35 pupils in every class every year. Education was WAY BETTER every year, even with Vietnam and everything else that was going on.
Time to cut the crap and join the real world….
“House Speaker Jill Krowinski said, ‘…There are more tough conversations and difficult decisions ahead, and we must keep Vermont’s kids at the center.’”
But only if those kids have already been born. God pity those who are still in the womb whom Krowinski has strongly advocated killing if someone decides they’re “not wanted.”
The hypocrisy is astounding.
Maybe I should move to Lowell. Property taxes there may take a dive if the developer gets to install 15,000 solar panels across from the school. That new tax base combined with the tremendous amount of revenue from the wind towers should offset any school tax increase. Right?
Holy SH!T, that’s a lot of panels… nothing like exposing the kids to even MORE EMFs
If taxes the rise to anywhere near that level, Democratic/Progressive losses in the General Assembly will give them a new super minority. That of course will test the GOP’s willingness to slash our bloated education budget to achieve a level tax rate. Even at that reduced level it would, be too high for the quality of education we are getting. Maybe we need to look at how Mississippi cleaned our clock in educational results for less than half the cost per pupil
They went back to basics you know like phonics and multiplication tables. They used rote memorization and remembered how to do it from before the government broke it.
The beatings will continue until moral improves….
Nothing will change as long as there are more voters that vote for a paycheck than not.
Vote every school budget down next year and don’t approve any more money than we gave them this year
Krowinski states, “we must keep Vermont’s kids at the center.” When, in fact it is keeping the “3.4 students per staffer, including administration” at the center. It’s not about the kids anymore . . . it’s about the staff and administrators.
Is Property Tax constitutional? Check VT constitution articles 1,2 especially. Stand up for your right to actually own your property. They call you owners to appease you but treat you like tenants, or serfs. They claim superior title to your land, an abrogation of the Constitution. Call your Local Town out on it. Ask them, do you claim superior title to my land? IS my right to private property something you will uphold, or are you upholding indenture? If you are you are acting in violation of your oath of office. What’s your definition of inalienable, of inherent, of feudalism? Are you calling me an owner fraudulently? Because you don’t have a right to take my property away from me, based on whether I pay you to stay or not. Additionally, what have schools become if not breeding grounds for big pharma profits, whether it be nonsafety tested mandated ‘vaccines’, or children teased into trangenderism for new life long clients for big pharma. There is a lot of compliance (with a pill or a needle), and less encouragement of independent thinking. How many schools are educating thoroughly about the terms of our constitution? wethepeople2.org and at least one book everyone should have: The Rule of Law, a Nation of Laws, Not Men, by Ronald Bouchard Jr.
I would like to bring my lengthy observational lens forward because I view the schools as a Python runaway freight train. Pythons consume everything in its path, behaving in gluttony while digestion occurs and runaway freight trains go unchecked. Most folks are missing the point. The needle point is why is government tethered to schools in the 1st place. Why is Vermont congress/legislature set to ‘raise’ property taxes yet again and ultimately why was Property tax put in place as the main source of getting the revenue for Education? This is what needs to be addressed.
The fact that we have rampant maleficence in Federal and State levels, and they themselves can’t ‘recall’ or expulse each other due to rigid structures; is in itself bizarre and irrational. In a philosophical framework without all the negative perspectives — Any other Business/Corporate structure would ‘fire’ folks who are that reckless and careless. And because ‘congress’ is structured as such, they get to have carte blanche??? And in this case, which bears repeating, the Vermont state congress is set to raise property taxes another 12%!!! This is insanity. Where is all this $$ going based on the ‘facts’ such as a lack of children in K-12 but we need another $1000.00 totaling $30K, now to teach each student — teach them what?>> that cost $30K? They can learn more from just doing their own research on a computer at home and this would benefit the overall ‘community’ purse strings. The stress load associated with this current school structure in place is beyond any comprehension. Home schooling is the most efficient. The only reason Home Schooling is poo-pooed is because so many other adults are tethered to the paychecks that WE the TAX payers are footing as noted by H. Jay Eshelman’s point-out via the AOE edu-teacher-staff-fte-report-fy20-fy21 [thank you] –and simultaneously parents utilize the schools for Babysitters; so, they can go to ‘jobs’ that aren’t keeping pace with the Python-runaway freight train. WE the PEOPLE of Vermont State appear not to be in ‘control’, so that means we have to look at the root cause of how this happened. AS part of WE the PEOPLE, I propose to everyone start putting into action the following, a. [copied excerpt] the clause in the Declaration — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government’- and b. in the interim ‘stop’ paying property taxes….to stop the bleeding and then immediately start looking at REFORMING. Yes, it will sting but in the long run it will make more folks return back to being self-sufficient. Most children according to the fabricated his-story books did just fine working on the farms and could read, write and do math and had developed better labor skills due to all the different hands-on learning to include driving that was taught to them by their elders. When ‘children’ were forced to start going to a ‘public’ school system is when everything started to spiral out of control. Mandating and Rigid Regulations that were imposed are the kingpins. Case and point the 1852 Compulsory education act. [copied excerpt] The 1852 compulsory education act in Massachusetts was the first law in the United States requiring children to attend school, mandating that children between the ages of 8 and 14 attend public school for at least 12 weeks each year. This law aimed to improve literacy rates and ensure that all children received a basic education. You can further read from this link that you’ll have to copy and paste so this post goes through without impediment> edentrepreneur.org/articles/compulsory-schooling-laws-have-got-to-go.
So until such time, WE the PEOPLE of Vermont must realize, that all the maleficence were installed long ago. We were taken over by what was put in place quietly and subtly centuries ago by these so-called helpful Human Beings who already were placed as gatekeepers to keep such systems in place; with the current one being bernie sanders that oversee the Python runaway freight train school structure that will continue to ‘increase’ property taxes’ because !!! [emphasis on don’t care] They are the gatekeepers to keep everything in place because they benefit while they bleed the rest of us. Because why didn’t bernie or any of his comrades, any politician in congress/legislature address and Reform the 1852 Compulsory education act already? The whole school structure needs to be REFORMED to where it’s a pay as you go structure. If Parents want their [emphasis on their] children educated, then they teach their own children or pay out of pocket for their [emphasis again on their] child’s education. Never mind the debate over literacy. The whole joke punchline is that most children don’t even need to go to any ‘public school’ because they are more literate and intelligent due to computers than ever before. Never mind the socializing debate either. Children can be easily socialized if Parents were doing their [emphasis on their] roles instead of relying on everyone else to do it for them. Never mind the ‘less fortunate’ debate either. If Humanity had a more balanced structure where we didn’t have Python runaway freight train governments in place stealing $$ from WE the PEOPLE, we would not have ‘less fortunate’ nor would we have all this reliance on Social Service programs or folks getting addicted to alcohol and/or drugs because they fall prey to despondency, despair and depression because there is such an imbalance in the overall structure of keeping pace with $$. And never mind the laundry list of folks employed with all these government institutions within the mental industrial revolving door complex. If WE the PEOPLE didn’t have a Python runaway freight train government in place, more folks would probably be more creative and productive and have a better go at things. Having said that the only way to address this existing school system controlled by government, is with this phrase, ‘What can’t be REFORM[ed] ABOLISH it already. Period.
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Calvin Coolidge said it the best:
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery”
“The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity”
“The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.”
The interesting part of the final quote is the fact that the creation of the Federal Reserve came with the creation of the Internal Revenue Service. The Congress created a system in which the Public Trust was forfeited to bankers and industrial barons. Since then, those who knew how to utilize tax loopholes, offshore accounts, and lobby the Congress (bribes) got to keep more than their fair share and the premise of success became a system of knowing how to control, rig, and game the system, at all others expense and indebted servitude.
Woodrow Wilson: “Our system of credit is concentrated… The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men”.
Also known as the beast with seven heads and ten horns. Exhibit A: “The Magnificent Seven: This group consists of seven very large and successful technology-focused companies: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. Market Cap Dominance: Together, these seven companies made up roughly one-third of the S&P 500’s total market capitalization, according to recent reports.”
M. C. You have to stop telling the truth with all these facts.
The only way out is to do something different. Vote out the democrats and vote in REAL conservative MAGA republicans, not Scott type RINOS, and return to the common sense government we had prior to 1969 (penny pinchers). We need to slash the school administration and teachers, return to the basics and proficiency in math and English, return the control to local schoolboards and principals and hold the accountable. Or we will continue yearly increases in taxes and declining student test scores.
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