March 05, 2004
Vermont town votes to secede & join New Hampshire
I'm not making this up. I heard this on Fox News a couple of days ago, the day on which the affluent ski resort town of Killington, Vermont voted to leave Vermont and join New Hampshire, 25 miles east, under which it was originally chartered in 1761. They're doing this in protest of outrageous Vermont property taxes... $20 goes out, $1 returns.
The Fox News online article summarizing the event contains mention of a significant factor that was missing from the broadcast version: the active participation of members of the Free State Project at the historic vote! Read and see. Also check out the TV ads the FSP used to help incite the vote.
Good luck to them: they've got a hard fight to undertake in the Vermont legislature, which will not want to lose one of their primary cash cows.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at March 5, 2004 09:45 AM | TrackBack