..healthcare, education, incarceration. It is almost like to secure these things governments are formed amongst men by consent of the governed. When wealth can be generated by something its hard to focus on it and not how much $ is being made.

Not sure why you are confused about something so simple as no public funding for non public schools..unless you have a vested or ideological interest in these places existing. The NEK needs a public option to the existing facilities.

As for the rest..? smh talk about me going off on jumbled rants,lol

Edit: im done with the thread so you all with the last word disease can get your digs in,lol. have a great day people!

>So these institutions should just take our kids pro bono?

No, the towns need to get together and build a regional HS for the needs of the public. IDC how bad/good the private schools are, public tax dollars should not be used to fund private and religious schools.

>St Johnsbury is largely funded by private benefactors.

Great then they dont need the funding from the public coffers!

How so? I mean ig if you are a member of a religion then it may seem that way given how those world views are at least (edit: at the ) fundamental level incompatible with modern life and require a salad bar pick an choose approach as to what rules of the club can be bent or broken.

They stopped busing the students between when i went and my kid was there..idk when exactly. That was a helluva burden on a single factory worker and threw my life into chaos. Public dollars belong in public schools period full stop. The patrons of these private schools want them to remain in business then they can pay out of pocket for them, and the parish's can pay for the religious ones from tithes.

Nah man, i think religious folks are otherwise intelligent people who have fallen victim to a delusional scam. I'm not sure where you got your idea's of what i think from but i cant see it from the convo here.

We need a public option for high school that provides busing. My problem with SJA is that its a private not a public school.

So i will start out by saying i went to SJA. I didnt really do well there in whatever kind of environment they are trying to cultivate there. Then i had a kid years later go there and it was just as bad of an experience. Everything from the expense of transporting her ( a couple thousand more a year in fuel costs ) to changing my schedule around to shift work so i could pick her up and drop her off.

SJA didnt offer me or mine much that wasnt more expense and trouble than it was worth, i loathe that my property taxes are going to a non public school.

>You're a pot calling the kettle black when it comes to indoctrination by the tone of your commenting.

So i will make it very clear for you so there is no misunderstanding: I am of the mind that all religious texts should be recycled into toilet paper and every church, mosque, and other religious buildings should be turned into homeless shelters.

Book club member? Sorry but not sorry if i kicked your god.

I know all too well how graduating to HS in the NEK means that the parents now gotta scramble to transport the kids themselves. Cal. Co would be better served with a regional public HS.

Religious institutions should get tax payer funding when they pay property taxes like the rest of us do, until then let the book club pay for the indoctrination centers not the tax payers.

There is more than enough land already locked up forever in trusts and preservation deals,lol. Every town could easily add another 5% in new housing and it would hardly change the landscape. Dont worry it will still look pretty for the damn tourists.

If you are going down 3 feet by hand then you may as well spend another 10 min and go another foot if you can. 4' is the rule that i grew up with and deeper is better cause you can add drainage first, which is always a good idea. I had to reset a meter post that was at 3 feet that i didnt set after like 25 years so take from that what you will.

Well your concern has been noted, and is the cause for another landowner posting thier property. Happy now?

Im also pretty sure that the hunter in this hypothetical will end up being paper fucked 6 ways from sunday if they were to assault a landowner much less be dumb enough to actually open fire on one.

Keep your GD animals off land they are not wanted on! What TF is so hard to comprehend about that?! Sure you got the right to hunt..where you are allowed by the landowners and subject to their approval.

People like you are the reason that people like me have had enough and take the stand we do on this topic.

LMAO, yeah screw that..i got every ( moral if not legal ) right to drive unwanted animals off my land.

Gravy Sponge for the win!

Keep your walking drooling shit factory on your own land and there wont be any problems,lol.

Nah, i was raised as a christian conservative..i know how and what those self righteous SOB's think,lol. Even with more parties id still not stand with those who push for any theocratic influence on our society.

I see a canine running loose on my property it is a target!

Well i suppose if their policies dont harm you or those you care about, that you know of, then i can see how you would think that way. Ignorance is bliss.

>And a goodly number of the existing Vermont Republicans are very decent humans

Well other than standing by the party of hatred. They are the crowds that cheer when the 'Radical' throws the nonconformist off the roof.

Most in this thread are the ones who walk by without a look cause it aint thier problem.

Not as embarrassing as it is to have Republicans elected to office in VT when the party champions the persecution of transgender folk across the nation. It has become the party of hate.

Composting?.. you mean throwing the food waste over the bank in one spot all the time? Yeah i do that down next to the road. I mean thats why TPTB passed that law isnt it..to draw all the critters into our front yards so the tourists can see them!