STORM2K

A ski resort (I wish I could remember the name) located 25 miles inside Vermont wants to secede and join New Hampshire...due to taxes (sales, resort) that pay to Vermont $10 M, but they get only $1M back in subsidies. More, the town is chafing under a confiscatory education tax hike dating from 1997.

The Governor of New Hampshire is "flattered", and would welcome the new resort town...Vermont, on the other hand, says that the town cannot secede short of insurrection. This from the Yahoo! web page...

And this state's Governor wants to be President?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ecession_1

Vt. Town Wants to Secede to New Hampshire
Fri Jan 9, 9:30 AM ET

KILLINGTON, Vt. - Officials in the popular ski resort area of Killington want the town to secede from Vermont and join neighboring New Hampshire in a dispute over taxes.

They say the town's restaurants, inns and other businesses send $10 million a year to the state capital in sales, room and meal taxes, but the state returns just $1 million in state aid to Killington.

Even more galling to the town is a statewide property tax imposed in 1997 to fund schools. The town of 1,092 won a Superior Court order that called the state's method of assessing local properties "arbitrary and capricious," but the state Supreme Court reversed that decision.

"It kind of reminds us of Colonial days," Town Manager David Lewis said Thursday. "The Colonies were being faced with the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, the Sugar Act. England wasn't giving them any rights. They were treating the Colonies as just a revenue source."

New Hampshire, just 25 miles east, has no income tax or sales tax.

Killington's Select Board wants to put the secession idea before voters on Town Meeting Day in March.

Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz said Killington has little chance of secession "absent an armed insurrection type of thing. ... A town is a construction of the state and exists at the pleasure of the Legislature."

New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan said he would be flattered if Vermont wanted to join New Hampshire — but he's not making any promises.

In Killington, not everyone likes the idea.

"I love having a Vermont address. I'm proud of it. It's a cool place to live," said resident Steven Kelly.

Is this the same one that has been divorced twice?

Twice divorced, I'm not sure..but the latest polls are showing many Dean supporters (IA, NH) are also "seceding" in favor of Wesley Clark.

*...from one bad apple to another...*

IMHO, out of all the DNC candidates, only Joe Lieberman appears to have a brain.

New Hampshire, just 25 miles east, has no income tax or sales tax.

Hmmm...South Jersey has always bantered back and forth the idea of seceding from Northern New Jersey. Delaware has no income tax or sales tax either - maybe we can join Delaware!!!

GOOD idea, Steph...I gotta call my sister in Meford!

Question...would they have to rename it the "Delaware Devil"?

streetsoldier wrote:GOOD idea, Steph...I gotta call my sister in Meford!

Question...would they have to rename it the "Delaware Devil"?

That is a good question!

The problem with the secession is that even though North Jersey will get Elizabeth, Union, Newark and YES, Trenton, we would keep Camden. Actually, that really isn't that bad...hmmmm.....