Great point

We should also do what we can to stop people moving here to work form home. We need a workforce, not an army of "digital nomads" making $150k and making it impossible for people working in VT to live here.

That too!

I think the VT legislature is mostly people who are independently wealthy and have no idea idea how normal people live. If fees go up, why not just ask your parents for more money?

What a dumb ass statement

>Local builder A.J. Shinners poured a little cold water on the dream of a dense and affordable village, however. With the expense of materials and labor along with the sale of million-dollar condos on Mountain Road, he found it difficult to justify building affordable housing on his lower-village property and intentionally refuse that kind of windfall.
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>“How do you look at a piece of property and say, ‘I’m going to build affordable housing that’s going to cut myself off from the potential income I could earn?’” he said.

And I got downvoted like crazy a while ago for suggesting that the main reason is that it's more profitable to build higher value for the investment cost properties.

Also, I should not say most… Edit*

And they paid a 6% tax on those rigs now they should pay more because of government ineptitude?

Wealthy people you mean wealthy assholes who don't care about anyone but themselves. Stowe will always be their playground and for real Vermonters who live and work there are just their servants.

I could be wrong but I think the compass school in Westminster fits too

The state has power to enact and enforce laws that are broken within their borders. License suspension is totally one of them.

>most folk whom live out of state are not dealing with vermont dmv

Maybe it's just the town that I live in, but the people that have second homes here VERY MUCH do have a "Vermont car" that they have registered within the state.

It's, more often than not, a Luxury car with some type of AWD.

This doesn’t work - we just tried it. They charge the NADA value of tax when you register it, not the purchase price.

I know, comparing Vermont private schools to NH private schools is like comparing apples and oranges (and that’s an understatement).

A child gets twice the education at Burr and Burton then any public school in Vermont.

Or Manchester

Hey, this is fun. I can play this game too. See, the goal of the pro-private school side is to suck as much public funding out of the public education system as possible. Then conservatives can point to a poorly run system they helped create while propping up the for-profits. (remind anyone of how conservatives govern? Ruin government then point to how ineffective government is and how private business is the solution). This is easy to see on the local level, with conservatives getting elected to the school board and immediately slashing school funding (See: Barre). That shitty school system helps keeps the populous dumb, aka easier to control, while also filling the pockets of the already wealthy using tax dollars for private schools.

Conservatives are incensed that they may have to send their kids to the same school as the poors so they want their own fancy schools while also getting the public to pay for them. And they are banking on enough of the population already being dumb enough to let them get away with it. Their kid gets nothing but the best, while the rest are left as dumb as possible so they can be whipped into a frenzy over "groomers" or "illegals" or whatever other existential "threat" of the day to keep them occupied.

Much like "the beatings will continue until morale improves," here we have "the funding will diminish until educational outcomes improve." Both make as much sense and get the expected outcome.

At the end of the day it's just more incentive to shop in New Hampshire.

What sort of power does VT have to revoke out-of-state/Federal, let alone Canadian CDLs for something like this? Because it's a safe bet there's not one single VT CDL holder who's unaware of this.

> 5 cents doesn’t motivate anybody anymore.

it still works for folks that have nothing. fucking awful way to make money though.

Current regulations are what dissuades people from building more affordable housing. When you need to put up 6 figures just to get to the permitting proc as with no guarantee of actually getting those permits that has to be added on to what you charge for the development. The state caused the problem, expecting them to fix it with more regulations is a bit silly IMO.

I don’t know that it is different, I’m only familiar with Thetford.

Rama go fuck yourself..or ELSE!

I was hoping to see an increase in the deposit amount / return amount. If they are worth 10 cents or even a quarter you would see far less on the side of the road which is the point of the bill. 5 cents doesn’t motivate anybody anymore.

Stowe is such a gross, exclusive town full of rich white people from Long Island, Jersey, Massachusetts... I have no idea why anyone would want to protect that. Why those places appeal to anyone is beyond me. I understand the desire to live in a safe place but if the trade off is being surrounded by wealthy Americans, not worth it. The amount of entitlement and the lack of any diversity at all would be hell for me.