To the Editor:

Refusing to pay income taxes is not a crime if you are someone who does not work for the government because the tax code defines those who have to pay as those who live in the District of Columbia,Guam and Puerto Rico or those who are working for the government. They intimidate the rest of you into submitting UNDER THE PENALTY of perjury the exact amount you think you owe them, as a volunteer effort to engage with the IRS. Pretty neat trick eh? Finding out any way to end your amount due or find a way out of paying is equally lawful, because if you can take another bridge and avoid the toll, that is totally ok, in the eyes of the law. And there are multiple ways to do so. Be the object of an LLC. Freedom Law School has an excellent track record at helping people end their support of our own demise, I have met triple digit millionaires not paying with the IRS program.

Let’s talk about funding our own demise. Look up. What do you see? Planes making clouds. It so happens those clouds are killing the forests and the insects. We have 90% of insects collapse and 90% of phytoplankton collapse.  Its called geoengineering and it’s why we have strange fog, extra intense weather events, flooding and hotter earth and cloudier skies more often.  The chemicals and the heavy metals being dumped and sprayed upon us by the tens of millions of pounds are going to literally kill life on earth, and already have pushed us to the brink, what with the other chemical attacks on Nature. Covid was an attack as well, not a response. The aftermath of the injections is worse than the news that promoted it will report on, obviously. 

The government, or is the globalist corporate entities, or the banking elite are waging war against peace and life on Earth, and they are winning. I don’t know how to stop those planes from killing the forests and the insects and next the birds and then the mammals including us. I couldn’t stop the majority of you from taking a so-clear-to-me fraudulent vaccine, or wearing a mask that harmed you, not helped you, or for standing 6 feet apart for no scientific reason.  So I guess I will not be able to interest you in saving the planet from geoengineering either, ‘dimming’ the sun, not that if you were interested you could stop it either. 

There is that legislator who said it was “interesting technology!”, I am exhausted by the moronic idea of witchcrafting Nature into better function. You can’t.  You can’t help babies by pricking them with multiples of injections with adjuvants that are toxic. The Amish don’t vaccinate and they don’t have autism and all the other health issues our kids have. Do you really need more proof than this?   It’s all so diabolical. And yet, here we are, arguing about tariffs and Trump as the planes drop death upon us. Trump who erected 5 g towers that aren’t actually for cell service improvement, what are they for? I doubt you would believe me, you would call me nuts, and not the towers. 

That’s what paying taxes is for. You are paying to kill the earth and us with it.  Thats why I don’t and wont, because its against the law to do suicide, and I do not fit the definition of a taxpayer.  

-Emily Peyton, Putney

Politicians or Parents?

To the Editor:

I recently watched a local town hall meeting at Burr and Burton Academy, hosted by local representatives whose Senate proposal would allow specific towns to maintain school choice. While I don’t like either plan, theirs is superior to Governor Scott and the House’s plan that would remove school choice from this area.

However, one of the objections was that it would be unfair to allow some towns to maintain school choice in Vermont but not others. I agree that it is unfair (but not nearly as unfair as having parents pay for private school and public school via tax), but why should everyone suffer just because some are, and does not the objection itself assume that school choice is superior to public schools?

The whole reworking of Vermont education (and indeed its current form) is aimed not at providing the best education, but at maintaining government education. Part of the new plan is to bolster the number of students in government-controlled schools, by forcing school-choice towns to lose that choice and instead support subpar public schools.

Public schools produce worse results and cost more than private schools, religious schools, homeschooling, unschooling, tutorship, and all other forms. If we wanted to reduce costs, we would abolish public schools, or at least not force anyone to support them. Allow the money to follow the student, then parents could decide where and how to educate their children best. This would enforce competition for children in the public schools, thereby raising standards, and more kids could receive better education in private schools or by homeschooling and avoid the negative influences of public schools. All for less money.

In Christian tradition, parents are responsible for raising children. They must teach them proper morals and values, and decide what they should learn.

Modern governments also want to educate the next generation and teach them the values, morals, and beliefs they want them to have, such as being obedient citizens and accepting the economic and political system in place. Karl Marx said that to implement socialism, the government must first impose compulsory education by the state to have the next generation accept and even desire authoritarianism.

So, who has the authority? In Vermont, politicians think they own our kids and should decide where they go; parents cannot be trusted with such vital decisions, only with supporting their school system with taxation or facing arrest for evading these burdensome expenses, imposed without our consent.

-Jeb Smith, Rupert

An open letter to Governor Scott regarding homelessness

Dear Governor Scott,

It boggles the mind how your administration can be so deliberately indifferent and uncaring when it comes to those who are being or already have been evicted from the Vermont Hotel/Motel Program without those persons having anywhere else safe and secure to go inside, day or night.

The rationale used by your administration for not allowing everyone to stay in the program who are currently eligible as well as clearly in need and most vulnerable does not wash, nor does it pass the straight face test, either.

The fact is that it actually costs much more in terms of fiscal (read: funding), human, medical and other social related matters to do nothing for those the state could and should be assisting more humanely.

Congregate shelters are not the answer either. 

If it ever came down to it, is this what you would want for members of your own family, closest friends or for yourself?

Would you want your loved ones to be living sheltered and left most vulnerable, in the woods or on the street?

Whatever the case might be, the fact is that you are obviously listening to bad advice and not listening to those who know better, including those who you and your administration are recklessly and ruthlessly kicking to the curb, people who are living unhoused (aka, living homeless). 

Where is your humanity?

Where is empathy, utmost respect and values for the dignity, rights and lives of those most in need, Governor?

If there is a moral failing by someone, it is not by those who are most in need and living unsheltered. 

No, rather, it is a moral failing by those who are deliberately indifferent to them; those who seem to think that it is someone else’s problem to address, so continue to ignore the need in the hope that it, along with those who are in great need, will move on and go away, disappear.

We, as a state, can as well as should and must do better.

Otherwise, we are flirting dangerously with disaster, allowing people to suffer needlessly and potentially die on the streets, underneath bridges or somewhere off in the woods or staying somewhere else unsafe, with someone abusive and who could cause them harm.

What is sorely needed is proper leadership. 

Leadership that unfortunately has been absent as well as sadly neglected by your administration, at least up to now.

Please, Governor Scott, step up and do what is fair, right and just before it is too little, too late.

-Morgan W. Brown, Montpelier