That’s from Feb 8th

If you google it looks like that went way north of Ma

Every time I mention a democrat veto proof supermajority doing nothing I get downvoted by MA liberals who are too nervous to realize they can’t blame republicans in MA

Yeah teachers should just get fucked even more.

Sad to see our new governor, allegedly from the party that supports unions, saying she won’t support this. Do Better Gov Healy!!

In your utopia then your taxes get raised significantly to make up for the shortfall of us subsidizing your communities. You’re fine with that I assume? Why can’t you just coexist with us? We love our time in vermont.

And you act like we provide nothing! I spend well over 90 days a year in Vermont.

You wanna defund your own schools, towns, states, leading to layoffs in the tourism industry?

I don’t. The point is, in MA, they can’t go blaming boogeyman republicans anymore. It’s 100000% on them.

That’s fair! And I think the current system is plenty fair to the locals as is.

Valid points, though I will also say outsiders use the roads the least, do not send their children to community schools, or take advantage of other town things so they get much less benefit for the tax they do pay. We can agree to disagree but some towns are just going to be that way. How would you change ski towns?

It’s our family home, not mine. Point being, it’s not a Vermont issue. Kicking everyone out isn’t going to help you

You think this is a uniquely Vermont problem? I live in Eastern MA and also can’t afford to live in a nice town. On a six figure salary. This is a New England problem. Vermont is in a better place than MA tho since they at least have land to build

It’s Reddit. Okay. “Get over yourself for fucks sake” Here goes then. Save money and buy a house. If you can’t afford it, get a better job. If you can’t find a better job, move to a state with high paying jobs, and if you can’t change your living situation, grow up and look at the hand you’ve given yourself and deal with it.

Of course! Just 1) at a lower rate and 2) ski towns, for instance, 2nd homeowners pay a significant amount of a local or regional schools budget

Not going to address you insulted me despite the numbers coming from your own states website? I’d argue a significant amount of money comes from people who spend their weekends and vacations at second homes in Vermont, spending money in restaurants, gas stations, mom and pop stores, etc but it doesn’t affect me if you can’t understand how the world works. Because it’s going to keep working whether you’re onboard or not.

http://accd.vermont.gov/tourism/research before you go insulting me and since you clearly haven’t done one ounce of research, it’s from your own states website.

And I don’t think that. I’m just asking you, where do you expect jobs to appear from? What companies are moving 30k jobs to Vermont?

You said “most of us want real jobs, not jobs waiting on rich people”. If you lose 30,000 jobs, what jobs do you think will suddenly appear?

What do you expect these high paying jobs that suddenly flood the state when we all leave to be?

Most of burlingtons tourism is from the rest of New England. And much of it is from people who have second homes and want to go out in Burlington. As a resident who is super entrenched in their position I think you’re missing the ramifications. Also, no one is stopping you from getting a good paying remote job. Major employers aren’t going to suddenly move campuses and jobs to Vermont because “housing is available”

There’s plenty of empty land in VT. Why don’t you build more instead of punishing people who enjoy spending time in the state? Tourism supplies 10% of VTs jobs, skiing isn’t going away, and outsiders bring $3B into Vermont yearly. You want to lose that?

Many people in tourist towns have second homes. There are tens of thousands of second homes and condos in ski towns, in hunting areas, around lakes. The two are related

Aside from investing 10% of your income in a retirement account and working for 35 years, you’re right

How would the tax situation be better? The same number of homes would be taxed at a lower rate, also assuming they sold the vacation homes and left you’d lose a shit ton in vts 9% meals tax and 10% alcohol tax, not to mention gas tax.

Let’s take Waitsfield. The schools are floated almost wholly by second home owners, the businesses as well. What do you tell a town like that? No one is stopping Vermonters from building factories in parts of the state and creating jobs