By Rep. Charles Wilson
There seems to be a huge push from the State of Vermont that “Universal School Meals” (H.165) be made permanent, and endless schemes to make the program seem feasible. But it will end up as more unwanted taxes on our citizens.
Added to this is also the battle over school choice and independent schools that could close Lyndon Institute and downgrade St. Johnsbury Academy to Prep School status. The real, awful threat is that our high school students from Lyndon, Sheffield, Wheelock, Sutton, Newark, Burke, and other area schools would have no high school to go to. A tragic loss to them and our entire area. Not only are student populations in public school education at an all-time low, but the teacher’s unions take as much money as they can from taxpayers to feed their agendas and salaries. The bottom line is always money…not quality education.
Make no mistake, illegal aliens are flowing into Vermont through our northern border at an alarming rate. Our State Constitution is also being manipulated to allow municipal voting rights to all non-citizens as well.
There is much talk of a housing shortage in Vermont but first, where have all our workers gone? Who is buying all the homes and land now?
Vermont is becoming a divided, illogical welfare state while the rich play. It was said of Liberty and Freedom, that “those who had the most, did the least to perform it.”
H.89, the health care bill for transgender care and surgeries that taxpayers will pay for, was moved along to the Senate on Thursday 2/9/23 in a mighty display of “one Party Rule” politics. Anything is ok now in Vermont.
The solution to all these things fomented by Democrat/Progressive/Socialists is the old saying….“if a herd of buffalo is heading for a cliff; don’t get in their way but just let them fall.” And hope we can put things into common sense again.
We have a right to disagree and do what we believe within the law, but in the State Legislature, we take an oath to not do anything knowingly to hurt people which includes taxing people to death. Beware. Socialism is the first step to a world-wide transition to state-controlled Communism.
The author is a Lyndon resident, former House representative for Caledonia-3, and a Republican. He sat on the Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency and Forestry.