Town Meeting Day

Vermont Town Meeting Flashbacks... We lived there many years and yet I cannot forget the time the Town tried to sell my farm for paying taxes 9 months late and they never told me, girl CoOwner. Town Meeting likewise a mirage of justice and fairness. Voice voting alone encourages a loud voice, a competition. 

The long version My Property Tax Sale Writings

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/search?q=Property+tax+sale+

Long Version my town Meeting gripes

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/search?q=Town+Meeting+

Taxing, Taking, Thinking, Trying, Telling.

From 2007, 

the year the town tried to sell our farm,

 9 months late paying taxes.

These scratchings seemed to make sense at the time.

Well, at least I understood.

It is a list of delinquent tax sale properties,

And people who were delinquent.

I believe we were isolated in seeing our property up for sale in 9 months.

They never told me.

Their abuse of power will never fail to affirm my

Cynicism

Nor will it fail to affirm my

Faith

That angels are found everywhere and

We can survive the barbs and tentacles of the

Greedy.

The heavy hand of Vermont property taxation

Stuck in the Google machine
Searching for answers
Vermont property taxation
Voting rights
Property rights
Over and
Over.

Here's a good one from town website 2013...

http://monktonvt.com/2013/09/26/taxes-increase/

Fast forward to this year's re-vote after a failed vote at town meeting day:

http://monktonvt.com/2015/05/26/anesu-revote-warning-and-sample-ballot/

meg...counting on my fingers...17 day notice
i was told no time to get out the absentee ballots
so what can a person really do to change this?

The Vermont Secretary of State has this for guidelines.
They don't enforce this...
https://www.sec.state.vt.us/elections/town-meeting-local-elections/local-petitions.aspx

If you read all that, let me know, I'll feed you some more.
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it's no wonder i had this dream,
my front door,
me, a child,
we are all children at heart,
the power gradient,
unbalanced. meg