I heard only part of Ben on WVMT today (4/15) and want to thank him and Campaign Vermont for all your great reporting. (I will be making a small donation in the near future.)


Can someone address the “Homestead” element on educational taxes (as a senior (or be it those being single or married adults, no children) with no children or no longer children in the school system, while I should still contribute toward school taxes, but at a far lower rate!? If you have children in the system, you should be paying more!


There is enormous waste as in a Fed program to VT last summer that just doled out $9 million —to all VT families with school age children - regardless of family income - for food assistance! No oversight nor a strategy to sincerely address the hunger issue and maybe support proven community Food Banks that have a record of applying money and food to the truly needy!


Baby Bonds ( poorly conceived legislative bill) instead to shift to Seniors Bonds?

Maybe apply the Unclaimed Money funds toward tax breaks or rebates for seniors and not just hand out money toward those children born in to government assistance. (Once born in, no guidelines or oversight that would stop the Baby Bond giveaway once a child is ever out of the poverty level before age 18 or 26!?)


Instead give back to seniors who have little to no choices in increasing their incomes against ever rising taxes and the cost of living!


I have little to no feeling that those in the State House in Montpelier are listening to us!

That our legislators just have their own agenda — and are even growing more disconnected from their constituents.