Town Meeting Day and Tax increases

[fdskier56]

https://mountaintimes.info/killington-t ... y-preview/


https://mountaintimes.info/local-taxpay ... tes-again/

Town taxes up 9.5%

Local school taxes up 15%


Looks like a big hit for property owners..

Any contested seats on the K select board ?

[Bubba]

Jim Haff's is up for reelection, opposed by Andrew Gieda.

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/loca ... f27b3.html

[wtf021]

Here is the link to a video of their debate last week.

https://m.facebook.com/KillingtonArea/v ... 193929462/

[ski]

Jim Haff's is up for reelection, opposed by Andrew Gieda.

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/loca ... f27b3.html

Haff needs to go . . . Bad look for Killington

[Captain Hafski]

I'm expecting even worse where I live in West Bridgewater [part of Bridgewater]. My taxes when up 15+ % last year [partly due to over-run of new fire dept bldg]. Now they're gonna go up a) general VT education increase and b) new Woodstock school.

In the end, I'm betting our taxes will go up close to 50% over 2 or 3 years. Crazy.

[Big Bob]

Jim Haff's is up for reelection, opposed by Andrew Gieda.

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/loca ... f27b3.html

Haff needs to go . . . Bad look for Killington

i wasn't impressed with either one of them. Lots of petty squabaling!

[Big Bob]

I'm expecting even worse where I live in West Bridgewater [part of Bridgewater]. My taxes when up 15+ % last year [partly due to over-run of new fire dept bldg]. Now they're gonna go up a) general VT education increase and b) new Woodstock school.

In the end, I'm betting our taxes will go up close to 50% over 2 or 3 years. Crazy.

What portion of your tax bill is the state education tax?

[asher2789]

every time people complain about their property taxes going up, especially for education, just remember that

1. the feds have defunded education over the past few decades due to neoliberalism, federal taxes on the wealthy went from 90%!!!! in the highest bracket around ww2 to a lower percentage than average workers pay. youre being ROBBED.

2. universal healthcare would solve a lot of problems as much of the costs that go up in education are due to extortion from middleman healthcare insurance companies that do nothing but deny healthcare and are leeches sucking up profits and delivering nothing of value except ill gotten gains to the shareholders

3. that we could have nice things but were too busy bombing the middle east for the past 40? 50? years. never forget, israel has universal healthcare and higher education. our 51st state pays no taxes but gets hundreds of billions of dollars from us to wage a genocide.

just remember those things every time you feel squeezed. your taxes havent served you for decades, your taxes fund the military industrial complex.

[spanky]

federal taxes on the wealthy went from 90%!!!! in the highest bracket around ww2 to a lower percentage than average workers pay. youre being ROBBED.

We’ve never taxed wealth! Not around WW2 and not now.

[Bubba]

federal taxes on the wealthy went from 90%!!!! in the highest bracket around ww2 to a lower percentage than average workers pay. youre being ROBBED.

We’ve never taxed wealth! Not around WW2 and not now.

Top bracket on income was 90% until it was lowered to 70% under JFK.

(Let’s try to keep this thread from moving to the Political Forum.)

[ski]

federal taxes on the wealthy went from 90%!!!! in the highest bracket around ww2 to a lower percentage than average workers pay. youre being ROBBED.

We’ve never taxed wealth! Not around WW2 and not now.

Top bracket on income was 90% until it was lowered to 70% under JFK.

(Let’s try to keep this thread from moving to the Political Forum.)

How this not Political . . Look at the subject line . . Pretty self-explanatory

[Bubba]

federal taxes on the wealthy went from 90%!!!! in the highest bracket around ww2 to a lower percentage than average workers pay. youre being ROBBED.

We’ve never taxed wealth! Not around WW2 and not now.

Top bracket on income was 90% until it was lowered to 70% under JFK.

(Let’s try to keep this thread from moving to the Political Forum.)

How this not Political . . Look at the subject line . . Pretty self-explanatory

If it stays as a reasoned discussion of the current school tax debate and the Selectboard vote relevant to everyone, we could leave it here. If it devolves (like so many discussions do) into angry rants and diatribes, it’ll get moved. It’s a judgment call.

[SPORE]

https://mountaintimes.info/unfair-busin ... illington/

Interesting if true and I wouldn't be surprised if it is true.

[Stormchaser]

Jim Haff is a clown and how he's managed to get voters to think otherwise is unfathomable.

[easyrider16]

Top bracket on income was 90% until it was lowered to 70% under JFK.

Then to 50% under Reagan, and most recently to 37% under Trump. It's a good time to be a high earner.