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1. All this shows is that Vermont is being led by ” IDIOTS “, a program that will do nothing, in the scheme of things as far as saving anything, but it will bankrupt its
   citizens !!

   You reap what you sow, you voted these inept fools in, agenda-driven policies that
   the ” Stupid Majority ” want at any cost, the cost to you and your lively hood …………

   Wake up people.

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2. Unbelievable that the voters of Vermont elect the sort of people who push an unattainable agenda, given how small VT is compared to the vast countries who won’t stop polluting. So we suffer a carbon tax that may very well drive more businesses to less expensive states where they can thrive. Does that sound like what’s happening in California anyone?

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3. now we know who to thank when we buy more expensive fuel this fall…………

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   • I have lived here for 50 years, but I am fortunate enough to be able to flee this state during the winter. I spend my money in other states where the cost of living is so much less, do not need much heat, and this is because of our ‘woke’ but limited vision government. Hopefully, I will stumble on a place with the beautiful summers of VT ran by competent people. Suggestions welcomed.

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4. Satan [turning up the thermostat]: “You know, those flames don’t light themselves.”
   When the Yea voters get to Hell, they may want to complain about this. Today’s posturing ‘planet stewards’ are tomorrow’s planet stewers, and it will take a LOT of natural gas to keep them uncomfortable.

   Masque

   By Ellin Anderson

   In folly’s masquerade, they go —
   I heave them high, to lay them low,
   And break them on the merry wheel
   Where they may pirouette and reel
   On painted ponies, gray and brown;
   I jerk them up, to cast them down.

   Proud saddlers of humanity,
   They raise a glass of vanity
   In mirrors that extend the feast
   Into the entrails of the Beast,
   And only scent the brassy ring
   To choke in chains, on cash and bling.

   Wild pipes regale the carnival
   On prairie fields, whose golden pall
   Is staked to raise the crimson tent
   Of chaos, where the veil is rent
   By music like a knife of steam —
   Calliope’s last rigid scream.

   I make them caper, leap, and bound
   To fury’s screech, in envy’s round,
   And each baguette grabbed in the race
   Wins them their own forked tail to chase
   In darkness — though the hollow heart
   Knows it will finish at the start.

   My mercy oils the lamp of lands
   Who neither soil nor strain their hands,
   But bear the rat and magpie’s creed —
   A burden light as cattail seed —
   Like lint into a furnace, blown
   Where it may warm my frigid throne;
   Like corn into a furnace, hurled
   Where it may kindle all the world.

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5. “Scott administration study estimates H.289 will cost ratepayers as much as $1 billion over 10 years. His plan would cost about a fifth of that pricetag.” This is not true. And the incremental cost to rates over the next decade is expected to max out at 6.5%. The fiscal note on the bill from the non partisan Joint Fiscal Office is here: https://ljfo.vermont.gov/assets/Publications/2023-2024-As-Passed-the-General-Assembly/3c9156bdf8/H_289_Fiscal_Note_RES_Reform.pdf

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6. Please make a correction. Bartholomew lives in Hartland but “represents” Windsor 1.

   At a recent Select Board meeting in Windsor Bartholomew was arrogantly adamant about his stand on the bill and refused to acknowledge a selectman’s plea to slow down and consider the impact. At the same time, Burrows pretended to listen then shrugged her shoulders and went on her merry way to “folly’s masquerade” (reference to Ellin Anderson’s poem).

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