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Killington Makes Another Move To Leave Vermont
WPTZ TV ^ | 2/6/05

Posted on 02/06/2005 12:40:39 PM PST by Straight Vermonter

They insist they are not joking, and they were back in New Hampshire Wednesday looking for a new place to call home.

Officials from Killington tried to line up support for their plan to secede from Vermont and become part of New Hampshire.

Killington wants out because residents feel Vermont's tax system is not treating them fairly.

Killington officials met with New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and state lawmakers in Concord, N.H., Wednesday.

Killington Town Manager Dave Lewis said they realize their chance of prevailing is small, but that isn't preventing them from trying.

A bill in the New Hampshire legislature would create a committee to look into the move.

Lawmakers in Vermont would also have to give their approval, which many said is very unlikely.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; US: New Hampshire; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: killington

1 posted on 02/06/2005 12:40:40 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

So they're going to hold the town prisoner? If they want to leave and join another state, they should be allowed to, the only problem is, New Hampshire is being invaded by liberals and it will very soon be in the same shape as Vermont.


2 posted on 02/06/2005 12:44:03 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: Straight Vermonter
Screw the Varmint legislature. Get out your torches and pitchforks, and secede from the state. If the NH legislature says it'll accept you, then go for it. What are the VT swish-hips going to do, throw throw cheese and mascara at you?


3 posted on 02/06/2005 12:46:48 PM PST by Viking2002 (Let's get the Insurrection started, already..............)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I think according to the Constitution, this would also require Congressional approval i.e. changing the state border.


4 posted on 02/06/2005 12:47:17 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
With all the Locust Liberals flooding into New Hampshire from Massachusetts, Will it really matter in 10 years
5 posted on 02/06/2005 12:52:25 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Viking2002
Screw the Varmint legislature. Get out your torches and pitchforks, and secede from the state.

Agreed. What are the Vermonters going to do about it, threaten to slap them with their ponytails?

6 posted on 02/06/2005 12:57:55 PM PST by Larry381 (Picture Ted Kennedy-head buried deep in the toilet-weeping & puking on election night)
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To: Straight Vermonter

With NH going liberal, this might become a moot point in a few years


7 posted on 02/06/2005 1:14:47 PM PST by GeronL (2-7-72 is my birthday, in lieu of gifts, just send me cash)
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To: GeronL

Vermont is one piece of work. They don't want signs, they don't want industry, they don't want commerce. They just want you to pay taxes for nothing. They want non-resident property owners to pay for everything they want because the non-residents "Can pay mroe so they should pay more."
It's never the case that they will work harder for more.

They people of that state has not the first idea of where money comes from. They tend to all believe it falls from the sky, and in a way, for them it does. Were the snow to fail one year, they'd all die.


8 posted on 02/06/2005 1:18:38 PM PST by 2thfxr ( letter I sent to Nightline)
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To: Ditto
I think according to the Constitution, this would also require Congressional approval i.e. changing the state border.

Would be hard to 'change the border' when the town in question is not on the border, i.e. it is in the middle of the state.

9 posted on 02/06/2005 1:26:32 PM PST by AgThorn (You're my president, Dubya, but do something about immigration or I'm not voting Republican any more)
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To: Straight Vermonter
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10 posted on 02/06/2005 1:32:12 PM PST by AgThorn (You're my president, Dubya, but do something about immigration or I'm not voting Republican any more)
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To: Straight Vermonter
I am a Vermonter ... which means I was born there ... and then I grew up there. After that, I spent 22 years in the military.

When I came back, Vermont was no longer what I remembered. Conservative values were shoved to the cellar by the attitudes of the folks who made their money somewhere Away, and then used that money to scarf up some Vermont real estate. Once they accomplished that, they moved right into applying the political mores of the places they had come from. That's how we got a Vermont that is now more liberal than the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Long Island and Manhatten stomping grounds they made enough money to escape from.

They elected a transplanted Upper Westie named Howard Dean to represent them as governor.

They have George Aiken spinning in his grave so fast that he's providing a chunk of alternative energy to the Green Mountain Power grid. Calvin Coolidge is revved up to nearly as good a producer. There are many others.

That's why I decided the better option to the aggravation was to up sticks and move to the hinterlands of Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

I wish Killington well, but don't see it happening yet.

11 posted on 02/06/2005 2:14:27 PM PST by gaelwolf
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To: gaelwolf

You have my sympathies and understanding. NH has definitely started down the slippery slope. We have dim Lynch - a governor with no program - RINO's proliferating in the state legislature (more and more of our citizen representatives are running un-opposed and under registrations as both Republicans and Democrats - imagine what kind of laws get proposed.

I would welcome Killington but I don't think it will take 10 years (maybe 5) before the NH tax environment is exactly like Vermont's today.


12 posted on 02/06/2005 2:49:23 PM PST by NHResident
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To: McGavin999

New Hampshire is being invaded by Walter Williams


13 posted on 02/06/2005 4:01:40 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: qam1

Same thing is happening in Utah of all places. The locals say we California refugees are ruining everything.


14 posted on 02/06/2005 4:07:37 PM PST by Blumtoon
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To: Straight Vermonter

A silly waste of time. Surely this town has better things to do.


15 posted on 02/06/2005 7:39:01 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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