Rerun for the Taxed

Rerun of my latest top tweet 

Supreme Court ruling came out

Barely a ripple 

But I saw it

And Remembering oh so vividly 

The day I found out my Farm had been for sale

For paying taxes 9 months late

By my idyllic little town selectboard in Monkton,Vermont 

I couldn’t fight it

I couldn’t 

That probably made me angriest..

That I couldn’t fight for my Constitutional Rights 

I gave up

I don’t regret it

Now if I seem to bring it up a lot,

It’s really my only way to fight what was wrong...

It was a beautiful place

In spite of the experiences I had there

⁦@Scotus⁩ affirms unanimously what I’ve been saying since Monkton, Vermont Tried to sell My Farm for paying Vermont Property Taxes 9 months late and never gave me Due Process. https://t.co/3k6yVwYJuz+ too late for me. We left that hateful town 😢 https://t.co/Sy4WfLBKvM

— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) February 20, 2019

Letter I found to others

I actually neglected my daily post.
Posting late,
This one in the queue...meg

My message to Fred Baser..Thanks again! Hello Fred Baser! I am a disabled RN  Who lives in Monkton,Vermont on our old farm. I have wanted to reach out to representatives about voting pro Scott Milne when the time comes. I have been very disappointed with Peter Shumlin. My salary at my state nurse job low, then frozen. Our health insurance premiums up 18%. I am now on SSDI and fixed pensions. Our farm taxes over $6k a year with income sensitivity. Shumlin effectively closed Yankee, let Canadians buy our gas  electric companies, keep the original names, then give away private property for a fracking gas . When Shumlin was in legislative role, he said up to towns to control school taxes. Then he tacks on a few cents as governor. Please help us who fight for property rights, lower taxes and have no insider status. I was also disappointed the gas people's land acquisition representatives were pushy towards elders and vulnerable adult landowners in Monkton,Vermont. The Governor's inattention to such threats by Canadian businesses is inexcusable. Thanks for your time and public service. Mary. my blog has more about property rights. Monkton nearly tried to sell my property for being 9 months late paying $8k taxes. Http://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com

Sparring, #fracking and Nerve endings

Sparring

Back and forth I go,
editorial arguments,
woven with social media,
like burrs,
snarling up,
the ties that bind kept entering my mind...

Addison Independent's reporter Zach has renewed my interests.
Commenters using what seems like alias personae are verbally sparring with me and the neighbor, about that pipeline Canadians want to slip in thru the neighbor's garden.

It hit a nerve again today
Property Rights
It screamed.

So I thought I would post one letter,
out of all the letters that I wrote
where I attempted to show the cold cruelty of the so called select board-5 elected people who make some decisions,
and sometimes go too far.
Impossible to fight,
I chose to bring to light what is possible in a sleepy town.
People can be cruel, mean, without even drawing a weapon.

Really an FYI, readers,
My nerves need a virtual poultice.
yes, I did all I could do to try to reform this corrupt sick system...

Hello Governor Shumlin,

On October 13, 2009, our 48 acre farm plus 10 acre swamp property was nearly sold by the Town of Monkton to satisfy about $6,000 for being late 9 months paying taxes.

This was the first year we qualified for property tax adjustment by income.

We had always paid taxes on time for 17 years. This property has been in Fred's family since the late 1800's.

We incurred shame, fees, penalties, costs including percentages of the tax to a lawyer and tax collector.

We were never offered abatement or other arrangements.

I never had any idea this happened until a month later when we paid the next year's tax: $5,000.

The day before the tax sale, Fred paid them from an account we established in case I cannot work.

I have MS. Fred was out of work and had been a self employed electrician.

I have been struggling to get resolution. I applied for abatement but could not face certain people in town.

I argued because of many factors. These are on my blog.

I lost.

I still want to see what they did to notify us they were selling our property and why after only 9 months late.

The selectboard is not cooperating in seeing this. I cannot afford an atty. I am sorry the bill died in the committee to look at penalties like the $500 we had to pay the tax collector (8%). The town cannot even tell me what they did to inform me or my husband. I have asked for over 1 year.

The selectboard does what they want and they stand behind this practice. God help the next people

who are 9 months late paying taxes. Nobody else cares.

Thanks for listening. I think you are doing a good job.

Please look at property taxes, they are robbing from my family of bread.

and off topic, Please let Yankee stay open with conditions. Talk with Meredith Angwin. Please do not emotion rule your decisions on this. Rely on science.

Mary E. Gerdt
alvarita1@aol.com
traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com

A letter

A Letter

from the clinic,

nearly left it

there,

on the table,

by my diary,

of my shots

i have had

for

4 years

now,

but the letter,

had a feel there,

out of place,

i had a

feeling,

it was not a simple

letter

but a message

that

my study

will

end soon.

I told

my patty,

my sweet voice

who monitors

my

progress,

that

it was

weird,

being told after

4 years

that this will all

change,

somehow.

She said,

everybody felt

that way.

Seemed like I was just getting used to it,

having more faith that this is the right

regimen.

Knowing the

funding

has a lot to do

with

well,

everything,

and politics,

is right up there too,

and when we feel

powerless,

it is because

we

are.

stay tuned, you know as much as i do.

will find the results of my study in January

and discuss next steps.

4 years no exacerbation,

hope they keep me on what i am on,

whatever that turns out to be.

mary