by Rep. Charles Wilson
Vermont has and is losing many workers due to the second highest overall tax rate in the Nation and being business “unfriendly” with ever increasing taxes, regulations, permits and programs.
Vermont advertised for people and paid them to come to Vermont with their out-of-state, remote jobs, and encouraged them to buy land and homes leading to an inadequate availability of quality housing for our own citizens and young families. Skyrocketing real estate and rental prices and a boom in short-term rental properties have all led to increased land prices and driving up the cost of new housing, building materials, and labor costs.
The Legislature is now pushing “Smart Growth low-income housing” which will also affect property taxes. None of this will help the average Vermonter and inflation, spiraling out of control, will hurt us all.
We all agree that feeding children in need is critical but the “Universal Free Meals” (two per day per student) will expand the education budget and along with the “Affordable Heat Act” are not sustainable. The so-called “Climate Emergency” created from data from special interest groups, uses propaganda moved through liberal politicians and the liberal news media. They really never speak of solutions to pollution, over consumption and waste, but just push the electrification of Vermont on an unrealistic time-line.
It is all unaffordable and creates fear. Vermont has lost its morals, culture, and any sense of godliness. Now Socialism is dictating what, when, and how we are to live from a few elites and backed by the majority in power.
The solution is to use common sense and Constitutional law as is rightly stated in our Constitution in Article 4- Sec.4. Remember…A Democracy does not protect individual or property rights; a Constitutional Republic, like ours, does.
Do not let go! Combat Unsustainability!
The author, a Lyndon Republican, is the House Representative for Caledonia-3.