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

You would shoot yourselves in the foot by losing all of the local tax revenue and tourism jobs if they leave

As an outsider, you already “tax the shit” out of second homes, which, by the way, bring tens of thousands of jobs to the state, fund your schools, fund your police, etc

Super. Majority. Every. Single. Elected. High. Office. This has to be the end of excuses

I expect this out of Alabama, not MA. Democrats in MA have super majorities in the house and senate, they have the SJC, and the governors office. They can pass anything they want here unilaterally (and could have done the right ting during Baker since they had the numbers to override a veto) It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

STATE constitution. Democrats in MA have super majorities in the house and senate, they have the SJC, and the governors office. They can pass anything they want here unilaterally. It’s just a matter of if they care enough to do the right thing.

Can we loosen restrictions and the timelines for approvals on new construction instead?

I want to witness it how often is this?

When do they come in?

It’s literally in the hands of the justice dept now. Let it play out.

Get the big Fenway which has multiple Dunkin’s in it

Tell me which action the democrats have done that have made mass unaffordable to you.

By driving on public roads you choose to abide by certain conditions. If you don’t want to, don’t use the roads. Be a homesteader. No one has made you participate in our society

Pro-DUI is a wild stance

I’m sorry that that’s your response in 2023.

I’m sorry you’re so sheltered in VT that you think Burlington is comparable to NYC, Chicago, La, Houston, hell even a medium sized city like Boston.

You didn’t qualify that it was within Vermont, you referred to Burlington in the same lens as much larger cities where 5 murders a weekend would be a nice break lol. Sure, Burlington is the major city of Vermont. It is absolutely not a major city

It is a “city” but you referenced it to ‘this would be a good weekend in any other major city’. Boston has 20x the population of Burlington. New York has 200x the population of Burlington. Burlington is absolutely not a major city lol. It has the same population as Salem MA, where the which trials were. It’s ⅓ the size of Manchester NH, also not a major city. Its a tiny city.

But Burlington isn’t a major city lol. There’s like 2 major streets and 40k people lol. It would be considered a medium sized town in any state with an actual major city

I agree! Just, in this election, I absolutely did not feel represented. I’m an independent and couldn’t bring myself to vote for her, and I definitely wouldn’t vote for idiot Deihl

Also she should listen to moderate and conservative voices (not MAGA but actual conservatives) too. Will she?

Not supersonic at all lol that’s just the roar of a low jet

They’re at every RMV. They’re afraid someone’s going to take their problems out on the RMV and go ballistic. It’s easier to hire armed guards than to provide taxpayers with a decent registry

Yeah it’s about half. Misspoke