Pat Political: What Governor Platform Should Be-2

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A Real Health Cae System for Vermont
Vermont needs a single-payer, universal Health Care system financed by an income tax on all income generated in Vemont.
Biomass Fuel
We need a biomass fuel economy in Vermont, with hemp grown for vegetable diesel fuel and waste vegetation fermented for ethanol. Biomass fuel is a triple win for Vermont. It will cut the pollution of petroleum products, provide the basis for many local businesses, and cut the cost of oil and gasoline in half.
Education
I want to see Vemont schools today as good as were the one-room schools of sixty years ago.
Electoral reform
We need IRV for instate voting and proportional allocation in the Electoral College. IRV offers Vermonters the best way to indicate their full preferences and at the same time to keep elections within the electoral process.
Taxes
Taxes shouldn't be "high" or "low", but what is required to pay for what we need, and should be on real wealth.

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What Governor Platform Should Be-2

The high property taxes we private citizens and truly local businesses owned and operated by resident Vermonters are presently paying to cover the costs of our infrastructure and education are very much priority issues for any candidate for governor.

Here we discuss infrastructure. Education will be the next topic.

The time when local property taxes funded an infrastructure which was mainly for the benefit of its own community is long past. We pay taxes to the communities in which our houses are. Too truly these are “bedroom communities”. We do our real living where we work and shop, in towns and cities many miles away.

Residents of Burlington and Montpelier are beginning to rebel and are looking for ways to create taxes that will make the many people who come into their cities to work and to shop share in this expense. But it isn’t just the people coming into Montpelier and Burlington who are able to make use of local tax payers. All of the out of state corporations, unless they pay local property taxes, are also getting a free ride from any community which houses them.

Therefore we need to rethink and redefine our understanding of how we are to pay for infrastructure and who is to pay for it..

A mandatory tiered statewide infrastructure tax, based on and distributed to each community according to its needs, which would be levied on all out of state-owned corporations as well as on resident Vermonters would seem to be a good solution.

Local property taxes would then be only to maintain purely local functions such as the town hall, library, etc.

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