Being a state representative is a service; it is not a job.
How many employed workers can double their income? Plus benefits?
How can the representatives who voted for their own increase in pay and benefits look at themselves in the mirror in the morning when they are responsible for the ever-increasing cost of living in Vermont? “Affordable Heat Act,” Act 60, 68, 26 and whatever the act will be shoved down towns’ throats. The state control of reappraisals (when all they had to do was adjust the common level of assessment and the coefficient of dispersion numbers)?
Creating one of the largest per-capita welfare systems in the nation — we’re No. 3; are we seeking to be No. 1? One of the best-equipped, I say over-equipped state highway crews in the nation — they have every toy in the catalog. Doing away with private contractors who could do it quicker and cheaper. The “upgrade of the state’s new IT/computer programs that don’t work, are over budget, and behind schedule.
Take a look at the state’s VTPIE program. The list goes on.
This state of sad affairs reeks with waste and it starts under that dome. How about digging deep and doing an article on it?
John Tiffany
Shaftsbury