Vermont has a lot of things we don’t have here in New Hampshire. They’ve got a State income tax. They’ve also got a majority Democrat legislature, and yes, those two things are related.
They are a sanctuary state which explains the exponential increase in border crossings, and have advanced more gun restrictions as crime rates climb. So, when I saw this headline, I knew what it meant, but it also meant something else to me.
Because you have to pay state income taxes in Vermont, they can also ask you for things like donations to the Nongame Wildlife Fund.
“Every dollar Vermonters donate to Nongame Wildlife Fund on their taxes is nearly tripled,” says Rosalind Renfrew, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program Manager. “Donations are leveraged by matching federal grants, meaning that every dollar donated secures another $2 in federal funds for Vermont’s wildlife.”
They mention a sturgeon and a bat, but if we’re being honest, the most endangered “species” in Vermont is principled Republicans. The National GOP ATMs – and I’m not implying any of them are principled Republicans – have more or less written the state off, expecting little or no return for their money. In other words, they can’t even get a RINO elected except Governor Phil Scott, who is a token now that the legislature has veto-proof majorities.
And he’s barely purple, leaning blue.
Things are bad. Massachusetts bad. It won’t be long before successive speakers of the Vermont House find themselves in jail for corruption or fraud or something. Even re-elected while in prison (we’ve had that happen on our side of the Connecticut river. It’s a Democrat thing). But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Instead of lining up to beg for alms from the state budget (or almost everything), you could elect candidates who would eventually create a state economy that allows you to succeed. Where keeping what you earn is a bigger priority than finding new ways to take it from you. A place where you don’t have to ask a bureaucrat about your carbon offset balance and do you have enough social credit points to cook some of those insect-based weiners they’ll make you eat.
Where identifying as an illegal “migrant” will get you more rights and benefits than if you were actually born there.
Democrats suck, by which I mean the lives and livelihoods of everyone in their ideological blast radius. Which is to say, what is endangered is Vermonters and Vermont.
I wonder what Ethan, Ira, and Ebeneezer Allen would think of that?
