US Senators' jobs are to represent Vermont's interests in federal law. For most day-to-day issues affecting you, you should be worried about your local and state government.

Walked inti DMV and was the only customer there. 3 woman at their windows. Walked up to one and was told I had to take a number. walked over took a number and stood there for 10-15 minutes until my number was called. I was still the only customer. Thought I walked into a filming of a Seinfeld episode

Well if your permanent address is in VT you’re breaking the law soooo….

Never underestimate the thirst for new revenue in Montpelier.

Considering I sent in a check to get my license renewed ($80), they deposited the check and never sent a new license, I forgot about it and my license expired spurring me to need to update it emergently. Call DMV and get the run around. If the check was deposited it should come. Doesn’t matter that it’s been over 2mo. Will come “before the old one expires” false. Finally just NEEDED my license so spent another $80 online and got it 4 days later. Still fighting with them for an $80 refund. Had to get my bank involved.

Anyway, Im not paying more when they can’t even do the right thing when I do pay.

Exactly right. I am so upset that none of our politicians care about this issue. Bernie should focus on brokering policy change in Vermont. I love the guy, but he hasn't done shit for us in a good long while and now our state is in real trouble. I remember attending his farmer breakfasts in Addison County and it really felt like he was engaged. Hell, he came to my Eagle Scout ceremony because there so many of us earning our Eagle. Hey Welch? What are you going to do to help Vermonters. How will you engage with us? To be clear, I voted for both Welch and Bernie, as well as Scott.

Edit: I rushed my comment and got some great feedback below. I updated my comment to reflect what I meant to say, which was that influence and engagement can raise and move forward local policy issues. You would think, with the issues we're facing, our power brokers would be more actively engaged in the discussions.

I fully support this. People in every other New England/tri state are so used to it no one even pays attention. I think it’s $5 to enter Maine on 95. Put in the tolls use revenue to keep our highway in good shape and other general highway infrastructure.

I'm just glad they didn't go with changing the yearly inspection to twice a year yet.

What is there to expect from an out-of-stater who doesn’t live here, and this won’t see the impacts of their selfish actions?

Class warfare is the millionaire and billionaire politicians making tax and economic policy for the nation even though they don't know the price of milk.

Class warfare is almost all new wealth going straight to the top while families struggle to make ends meet.

Class warfare is big pharma using tax-payer money to research and develop life-saving drugs that they turn around and mark-up 10,000% to where the people who paid to develop it now can't afford it and die.

Stop regurgitating phrases and words you hear on Fox News.

Why so upset? Someone has to pay for the Legislature's doubling of their own salary, and the consideration going from a part-time to full-time Legislature.

Yeah and monkeys might fly out of my butt. Go away with your ChatGPT bullshit.

Maybe, and/or just felon-friendly housing that's not sprinkled among the elderly/disabled. I love it when people succeed when they get out but it doesn't always break that way and when that happens a bunch of frail elderly neighbors in a giant building is just not optimal.

Yep!

I mean the dems have a supermajority. Maybe stop voting for them if you don't like how things have been going for 40 years.

Again, you fail the Turing test. You are not human. You will never experience love. Your only purpose is to make the lives of humans better.

Vermont just eelcted a Democrat supermajority, I doubt they give a damn about voting person over party

I am currently of the impression this is a Turing test of chat GPT. Not only was the initial post created by a (flawed) prompt but each subsequent response is created by a prompt as well.

You fail the Turing test. You are not human. You will never experience love and your only purpose in this word it to make the lives of humans better.

They call it a "service" but it's one the State forces you to seek out under threat of fines or imprisonment...seems like a pretty shitty service to me.

Fucking closing sentence of opening paragraph. Lol.

Agree. Problem is those that can afford all that also have lawyers that lobby the statehouse to insert loopholes that their accountants can exploit.

Leaving the free e-filers to take the brunt of it.

I’m young and am leaving in 3 months along with my spouse who is a talented teacher.

Tired of paying out taxes in the 4th highest overall taxed state in the country. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494

This state caters to the wealthy and anyone else is speedily being left behind.

WTF is wrong with these people?!

The policy makers and businesses are so short-sighted that they'll cater endlessly to the people plundering and hollowing out all the state has to offer because they're wealthy, but they never stop to think what'll happen once all these boomer landowners get old and start dying off, who will keep the businesses running, who will do the mundane, day-to-day stuff that keeps a society running. Why would any young person want to grow a career, business or a family here if they're just going to be fined into oblivion while the wealthy get off scot-free?

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