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by Guy Page
The Legislature must pass a bill this year that delivers future property tax relief, Gov. Phil Scott said today. But that bill won’t do anything to prevent an upward tax creep during at least the next two years, he warned.
The House-Senate conference committee on H.454, transforming education financing, reportedly will meet June 12, and the Legislature will reconvene June 16.
The education funding and governance changes – as yet undecided – would take place in four years if the Legislature has its way, less if the governor wins that argument. Either way, until then Vermont property taxpayers could face steep increases.
“Are we looking at a double digit property tax next year? Can you assure Vermonters that won’t happen in the next few years?,” VDC asked the governor at today’s press conference.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Scott said. “None of what were doing now [h.454, education funding transformation] is going to affect that.”
Vermonters will know more about future property taxes when the tax commissioner’s letter predicting the 2025-26 tax rate is published in December, he said.
Sanctuary state debate – U.S. governors, but not Scott, met with with Homeland Security chief Kristin Noem online yesterday. One of Scott’s aides was on the call. Sanctuary jurisdictions didn’t come up, Scott said. He maintained that – despite a weekend notice to the contrary by Sec. Noem – that Vermont isn’t in violation of federal immigration laws. He said Homeland Security might agree with him if they took another look at Vermont’s compliance.
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Categories: State House Spotlight
More property taxes the next two years will mean another social security check bites the dust. I, now am a federal transfer agent moving federal funds into the Vermont tax economy with no benefit for myself.
DemocRATS don’t cut taxes. They just find a new liberal cause to squander it on.
Bring DOGE to Vermont! State has to cut its spending, and its seldom reported that Scott and legislature are showing us any effort to do so. There should never be talk of raising taxes without showing where cuts are being made.
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It’s going to go up higher!
They can’t stop themselves.
Some hoe they want you to believe they are so frugal and said with your money, there is absolutely no waste, no overspending, nowhere possible in a 9 billion dollar budget anything can be cut.
Montpelier, here is your sign.
Can’t get blood out of a turnip – the middle class, who are the means to support the welfare industrial complex, the military industrial complex, and grifter nation are tapped out, by what the real numbers indicate. The mighty corporations, the mighty tech giants, the mighty retailers, the mighty banksters lobbied for and received the blessings to trick consumers to live beyond their means. Where is their money and goods derived from? Offshore. They are all battening down the hatches now – lay offs, closing, and consolidating to save their own hides and not spook investors.
Go ahead Phil and company – keep penalizing, keep pandering, keep stealing, keep lying, keep the giant ponzi scheme going for as long as possible. The dominoes are set to fall – no matter the lawfare warfare waged against the People.
I wonder if they have to rake test to determine if they have dark tetrad qualities to run, or if it’s just a coincidence that happens during the selection process. Seems to be a very high tendency, at least with the highest leadership, that and about zero critical thinking/self reflection.
With constant tax increases and constant increases in valuations ( e.g. unrealized capital gains tax, based on the f antasy that real estate markets always rise ) the prospect of the acclaimed desire for affordable housing will never be attained. Affordable housing includes affordable taxes.
Vermont is trying to run the middle class people out of Vermont and move in rich out of staters…