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In this video essay, Vermont transplant Morgan Gold examines the demographic and economic pressures that are making the Green Mountain State increasingly difficult for ordinary residents. Drawing on data about the state’s aging population, the lowest fertility rate in the country, net out-migration of young people, rising property taxes, school funding challenges, and a tightening housing market, he argues that Vermont is no longer as sustainable as its reputation suggests.
Gold walks through the numbers and real-world consequences for schools, the workforce, small towns, and the middle class—without offering simplistic fixes—while reflecting on what these trends mean for anyone who lives in, loves, or is considering a future in Vermont.
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Vermont is no different than a majority of blue states witnessing an outflow of people, go figure
General affordability has been an issue in Vermont for quite a while, since the dawn of the $40,000 septic mound and the VTNEA teachers’ union owning the legislature and driving up property taxes to fund a bloated beast of a public education system. Basically the problem started when democrat Phil Hoff became governor. Every human need or want has become a “human right”.
Was wondering looking at the hourly tax expenditure chart, why are teachers hired by individual towns and districts but under one separate retirement system at a much higher rate than State Employees?
Defined benefit, vs. defined contribution.
Tyler, so teachers don’t contribute to their defined benefit Plan but State Employees need to contribute to their Defined Contribution Plan, which only expense to State then are Amin Fees and some sort of matching contributions. Why can’t teachers have Defined Contribution plans because they are eligible for extremely Tax Favored 403(b) personal plans in addition
…and the PROGS [communists] keep gaining…by speaking against all persons who have money………Are we brain dead in this state?
No, just possessed, as evidenced by how popular all the witchcraft and psychic fairs are. At least here in Newport — our city’s guardian angel has a huge job!
Excellent video. Lots of information. Thank you Morgan!
Let’s start with the famous legislative act & newly added to the Vermont constitution that allowed to kill/abort babies up till 9 months & tell doctors they are forbidden to assist the baby at all. Then we have the move of teachers who for MANY years did not contribute to their retirement and Shumlin piggy-backed the NEA to the state employee’s retirement system…guess who is paying the bulk of those now retired teachers? Let’s hear about the lack of funds in the VT retirement account while Pieciak gives out money like candy. And let’s not forget we have healthcare that is subsidizing the illegal/unhoused and sanctuary folks and drive up the cost of housing or so they say lack of. Seniors are being backed up to the wall just to live in their own homes as the unfair property taxes keep rising at the whim of the folks who outsource most of the legislation to “committees” that are not even in VT!! We can all stop the madness if we get real with who is actually in charge in Vermont, it certainly is not the average worker and voter!!
There are so many simple changes that would turn Vermont around in 2 years.
Simple does not mean easy, but they would be positively transformational.
Families like
A) Jobs, good ones
B) Good Schools
C) Low Crime
D) Affordable Homes
E) Good Health Insurance, Affordable
1) Health Insurance…..we have the answer which is Captive Insurance; we actually specialize in it for other but not for ourselves. We have the most expensive, least effective.
2) Affordable Housing is a grift for those connected to build subsidized housing, to build, to take away school funding, to pay the tenants rent. No family desires this. They want affordable home ownership. This is easy, allow it. Affordable septic design, housing by right. Everytown to permit 1% of the populations amount of homes for ownership under $200,000. All equity to the home owner, no equity stealers.
3) Crime, we have a serious crime problem fueled by drug dealers. Hire more State Troopers, treat drug dealers like we did Costco with their gas pumps, fine them for operating a pharmacy without a permit. Become the least tolerant state in the union for drug dealers and criminals, let them do business in another state. Time to go, buy bye!
4) Good Schools, we have government indoctrination centers, which want no competition. If we fund the parents, the money to educate their children it will be done in 2 years. At what $60k per year for 2 students, home schooling makes economic sense and educational sense. 4 kids $120k per year to home school. Suddenly we have a young person boom.
5) Jobs, well no act250 fees for any business would be a start. Business use by right would be another. Making the building codes and upgrades for existing buildings easier would be immensely helpful.
Business by right:
1) Heritage seed, produce and animal production.
2) Recycling business
3) Cottage EV production, like nano sized cars and trucks
4) Easy septic installation
5) Dredging phosphorus lake bottoms
6) 4 plex housing
7) Bike production
8) Manufactured housing
9) Green soaps/house hold products
10) Food Products/Healthy Frozen Dinner production
11) Day care
12) Private School
13) Doctors office and concierge medicine
14) Home schooling
15) There are many more……where we don’t have to lose our soul.
Here’s the problem, in a Marxist, United Nations colony, you can’t compete with the state, because they have the monopoly and people are making bank off of keeping Vermonters, homeless, broke, unhealthy, uneducated and jobless.
Thankfully it’s all a manmade problem we only need to change our mind and direction.
Agreed, And because our elected leaders have failed miserably for decades, they need to be replaced with new blood that is energized and ready to advocate for new policies.
The Looney leftist in vt are the real problem and have been for far too long folks. Don’t you think 🤔 it’s overdue to send them packing..
Wake up native Vermonter Wake up….