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My name is Christine Stone, and I wasn’t planning on running for the State House of Representatives this year. What changed my mind? Like all of us living in Cornwall, Ripton, Leicester, Goshen and Salisbury, I got my property tax bill!
Clearly, something needs to change in Montpelier, starting with the people we send there to craft these policies. Our representative is Chairman of the House Education Committee. He as much if not more than anyone is personally responsible for the policies that led to a historic 31 percent education property tax increase in Cornwall that will crush so many household budgets.
He is equally responsible for the complete lack of meaningful action to address this issue. This kind of governance cannot be rewarded with two more years in office. Many cannot afford this tax increase on top of the recent health insurance premium increases, new payroll tax and “cloud tax” on internet-based services and a 20 percent increase in DMV fees.
If elected this November, I pledge to fight for and demand that the legislature enact some form of property tax relief
immediately and will work diligently to reform our education finance system for the long term.
The property tax increase is just the tip of the iceberg. In January 2025, the newly elected legislature is mandated by law
to vote for or against rules implementing a “carbon credit” system on home heating fuels, which is effectively an excise
tax on oil, propane, natural gas and kerosene.
Best estimates show this program adding somewhere between 70¢ to more than $4.00 per gallon to those fuels. Again, this is simply unaffordable. If elected this November, I pledge to be a guaranteed “NO” vote on the “Clean Heat” carbon tax and any bill designed to raise Vermonters’ costs to heat our homes and keep warm in wintertime. This position is not shared by the incumbent representative, who not only voted for this home heat carbon tax system twice in 2022 and 2023 but voted twice to
override Governor Scott’s veto of the scheme, the second time successfully.
He also voted for the higher DMV fees we’ve been paying since the new year, the new payroll tax that’s been coming
out of our salaries since July, new energy regulations that will drive up our electric bills, a tax on internet-based services,
and to add insult to injury, voted for a bill that would have more than doubled his own salary, as taxpayers are struggling
to make ends meet. None of this is sustainable or responsible governance.
Although Governor Scott’s veto of the legislators’ pay raise bill was successful, many incumbents have vowed to bring it
back after this coming election. Again, I pledge that I will be a guaranteed “NO” vote for raising the salaries of
lawmakers, especially when Vermonters are struggling so hard to get by under the policies passed by these same
lawmakers.
The quality of work we’ve been getting does not deserve a raise. Vermont deserves better. Vermont is facing some serious crises today, from the overall cost of living to climate related flooding, to crime and substance abuse. We all need to get real about finding thoughtful, realistic and affordable solutions to these issues. This is why I am running for the House of Representatives for Cornwall, Ripton, Leicester, Goshen and Salisbury, and I am asking for your vote on November 5 or by early mail-in ballot after September 23. Thank you!
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Bravo lets get a replacement candidate for every legislator that does no more than keep their seat warm and vote as told to !
What’s not to like about Christine Stone? I hope you win and, moreover, I hope you accomplish what you set out to in this statement. Best of luck to you!
Christine Stone, another Vermonter waking up to the gross tax bills coming from the ” Stupid Majority ” to fund their feckless projects, until the citizens stand up and take control and vote these clowns out because they have forgotten they work for us.
All you have under the ” Golden Doom “, yes doom, is arrogance and stupidity !!
Ms. Stone, all of the education reform that’s necessary (the H.405 School Choice Act) is currently collecting dust on the House Education Committee’s shelves just waiting for someone like you to rescue it from the hands of your opponent, Peter Conlon.
Best of luck to you.
Thanks Jay for the information.
VT, the revival of medieval Europe’s “Lords and Serfs,” rulership.
Best of luck, Christine! It will be an uphill battle as the Cabal is totally entrenched with a bloc of brainwashed voters and EVM’s to boot.
Did you meet the deadline to get on the ballot?
Yes.
Bravo, Christine. I wish I could vote for you. Nevertheless, I support you wholeheartedly. We need to get back to citizen-based government, and we’d better do it soon or the Vermont we all know and love will be memory-holed.
What you wrote should be your slogan: “Vermont Deserves Better”. Or maybe “Vermont REALLY Deserves Batter”.
Undoing all the unconstitutional, unprincipled thievery and insidious crimes against humanity should be the goal of anyone running for office or sitting in a bureaucrat’s seat. The People deserve justice and demand to be served as the Constitution and Bill of Rights is written. Yet, after the first caucus meeting, high hopes are dashed and falling into line or else is what prevails. The corporation must be dismantled before any resemblence of the Republic of the United States or the Republic of Vermont can be reinstated.
1st get rid of the multiple superintendents
2nd mandatory uploaded spending specifics for every school on one site. Every dime accounted for.
3rd throw out the public private entities that are eating up out money with nothing to show for it
4th no more universal free lunches –
Those public private entities are a threat to our free market system and part of a new economic model being pushed by central bankers.
The bottom line is to get out and Support Republicans and get out and VOTE Red, Red, Red, Red vote Red period folks Get-R-Done Patriots Get-R-Done 👍🇺🇸 🗽🇺🇸👍
“Get Real” people “Get Real”
Good for you!! You should be commended!
Christine Stone has put forth a pretty basic premise. It is just not one or two outrageous bills but the collective gobbling up of tax dollars. The tide has to change so that it is not the taxing that is important to increase but it HAS to be on the spending. It has to be cut in a signifigant way. It has to be a team effort. She is on the right team!
I wish I was a voter in your district…I am otherwise behind you heart and soul…
Amen christine I will also be a no vote against the super majority! Please vote for christine!
The only way to achieve property tax relief, without raising taxes elsewhere, is to cut spending. Something the idiots in Montpelier never seem to think of.
Hi Bill, I agree completely. For example the Universal School Linch program costs tax payers 29 million a year. The previous school lunch program provided free lunches to those who fell below a specific economic level and was effective. There is no economic reason why taxpayers should be funding such a policy. In addition the ever expanding state beurocracy is negatively impacting all taxpayers. These costs will accelerate, as the cost estimate to administer the Affordable Clean Heat Act carbon tax scheme is 90 million a year.