World 12_27_17

NOTICE
TOWN OF BARRE
One of three elected auditors resigned because of
moving away. Until 4:00 p.m., Friday, January
5, 2018, the Selectboard is accepting letters of
interest in filling the vacancy. Appointment to
the elected auditor positions will be valid until
the town’s annual election on May 8, 2018. The
appointee may seek election on the May 8 ballot.
The elected auditors’ primary duty is supervision
of the preparation, publication and distribution
of the town report. Letters of interest may be
mailed to: Town Manager’s Office, P.O. Box 116,
Websterville, VT 05678, or emailed to: offices@
barretown.org.
By Thomas White, Chairman
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Thank You!
Dear Editor,
Fellow residents of Bennington and the surrounding area,
we at the Vermont Veterans’ Home want to thank you for
participating in this year’s National Wreaths Across America
Day at the Vermont Veterans’ Home. Each December on
National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission to
Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinating
wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as
well as over 1,100 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at
sea, and abroad.
Again, this year the day was cold, windy, and snowing, yet
as resilient Vermonters, over 375 of you attended and participated
in honoring those who had served our great nation.
Incredibly, we had sufficient wreaths to lay a wreath, call out
the Veteran’s name, and salute ALL Veterans interned at our
Vermont Home. Thank you to Amy Maroney for spearheading
this amazing and never to be forgotten accomplishment.
Also in attendance were several youth groups, Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, and church groups. This was our largest turnout
ever, we are extremely grateful for you setting aside time during
your busy holiday schedule to join us and participate.
We appreciate our State Representatives who joined and
participated, Mary Morrissey and Kiah Morris.
You all attended not to “decorate graves,” but to commemorate
their sacrifice and dedication to these United States
and to the cause of Everlasting Freedom. A profound Thanks
to all who attended!
Semper Fidelis
Colonel A. M. Faxon Jr
Deputy/COO Vermont Veterans’ Home
Expanded Bottle Bill Would Result in
Cleaner Streets
To the Editor:
As volunteers with the “Trash Tramps” group, which picks up
trash every Tuesday in Montpelier, we’re well acquainted
with litter in the downtown. Every week, we and other volunteers
pick up a wide variety of empty beverage containers that
probably would not be there if our current bottle bill was
expanded to include them. An expanded bottle bill and an
increased deposit would result in cleaner streets and rivers
throughout Vermont which would have economic benefits in
addition to benefits for wildlife and public health. Please join
us in urging our legislators to support an expanded bottle bill
in the upcoming legislative session.
Nancy Schulz
Anne Ferguson
Montpelier
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Chamber Supports Reliability & Affordability
By William D. Moore
An idea that was met with enormous
opposition at the polls in 2016 and in
the general assembly in 2017 is still
being promoted as the solution to the
challenge of climate change. This miracle
is known as the Carbon Tax.
Proponents claim that the “fee” for
using motor vehicles, heating homes
and businesses and imposing it on virtually
anything that emits carbon will force consumers and
industry to use less, ultimately lowering emissions.
Make no mistake, what proponents of a carbon “fee” are
talking about is a tax that will affect each and every Vermonter.
It is in fact not a “fee” but is a new tax, plain and simple. Fees
are generally defined as monies collected to fund the operation
of specific programs. A tax is generally revenue collected
to operate government.
Proponents of the Carbon Tax have floated an incremental
increase in the tax on fuels (gasoline, diesel, heating oil, etc,)
of up to $.89. Put into perspective, today’s Vermont gas tax is
$.30 per gallon ($.32 for diesel). Add on the federal fuel
excise tax of $.18.4 ($.242 for diesel) and today’s gasoline tax
is $.48.4 per gallon. Given today’s average per gallon cost for
gasoline of $2.58, you can get an idea of where a Carbon Tax
will take us. And that is without any sudden escalation for the
price of a barrel of crude.
A selling point that proponents always promise is that the
Carbon Tax will be used to subsidize electric rates. Often, the
promise is that the Carbon Tax will be used to support low
income consumers, fund renewable energy, etc. How often
have we promises like that before, only to see the new tax
collected used for some other purpose?
The Carbon Tax is, like any sales tax, regressive by its very
nature. Those who can least afford it will be forced to pay
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