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Kiernanstrat t1_j2rhjha wrote

Reply to God of VT? by imanursesowhat

Saw this on tiktok. The other Gods all look the part with wings and stuff. The God of Vermont is just some dude from the NEK.

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imanursesowhat OP t1_j2rh9kf wrote

Reply to God of VT? by imanursesowhat

I am not OP. This was actually sent to me by a friend. Apparently, someone using AI, created different “gods” for each of the 50 states.

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[deleted] OP t1_j2qc03q wrote

Reply to comment by QueenOfQuok in Entitled people in Vermont by [deleted]

As much as I want to see AirBnB collapse, I’m not sure that would solve the problem at this point. AirBnB is a criminal enterprise at its core. They will just “innovate” around the regulations or bans, and create a black market for short term rentals. This has played out across the world with this organized crime group and its local syndicates. Stop thinking of them like a company, and start thinking of them like a mafia. Real estate has always been a mafia favorite, after all.

You don’t solve a mafia problem by banning the product they’re pushing, or playing whack a mole with the groups. You solve it by beating them at their own game, or destroying their market for harmful goods.

The carrot: flood the market with higher quality goods at a lower price that only the government can provide, and the mafia goes away. Provide a public option for housing.

The stick: Restrict the number of homes one person can own. Make property taxes punitive for property hoarders, so they could never possibly be profitable. I think a 15% annual tax on homes that aren’t primary residences sounds right to me.

I’d also really like to see a government agency crawl so far up the asses of these AirBnB owners and find all the mortgage fraud, code violations, PPP fraud, and tax fraud that’s undoubtedly lurking below the surface. Bury them in audits and inspections, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. None of these people are innocent. Give me a man and I’ll find the crime. Then use those convictions to build a RICO case against the head of the beast. Scorch Airbnb and salt the earth so VRBO can’t grow from the ashes.

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[deleted] t1_j2q5yyf wrote

Reply to comment by DinosaurDied in Well, warm enough for a hike so might as well by HomeOnTheMountain_

You clearly haven’t been there that long my dude. Water in the West is a racket. It’s organized crime. The oligarchs in charge of it all will drain that lake dry and run all the heathens out of SLC, and the Utards will cheer on their oppressors and die at 50 from the pollution to own the libs. These degenerates roll coal on purpose FFS.

The skiing is awesome there but it is truly a godforsaken place to live. They barely even let you drink beer there. They’re 10 years away from being Mormon Qatar.

Water rights are a legal fiction, but the people who benefit from it have all the power. Nobody cares if SLC has a bigger economy and more people, if it’s not stuffing the pockets of the people at the top. Just like no one in Qatar cares about all the slaves they killed to host that world cup. It made the criminal royal family a lot of money, and that’s all that matters. In a theocracy, heathen lives are valued about as much as cockroaches.

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slow-poke-rodriguez t1_j2pvjb2 wrote

Reply to Location of redditors on r/vermont by Soci3talCollaps3

I’m from FL, wife is from VT so we split time between both places now. I was scared at first being landlocked and at altitudes above 100’ but freakin love y’all, no billboards, venomous snakes, nobody litters except whoever drinks those twisted teas on my dirt road… I’m gonna find that sumbitch one day…

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