thousand for twelve fourteen when i was two years i have run for state representative twice now and more than likely will be and so today i'm just fillion for bonnie and well here we go in just a woodstock report first thing i like to do is this talk about you know the town caucus you know every every election cycle we have to caucus at least ten towns to be able to count and so far we six done fairfax west for shaz barry roxbury richmond billington south burlington and milton have been organized so thank you to all those who did help organize we  have a couple of towns left to go to meet our ten min and ten minimum town minimum so if you would like to organize your town or if you can if you're in at us and county we have a couple more members for that if you're  edison county please email be libertine with me v t at g mail dot com the person to contact is our chief flower so if you're not as in county again please email him we could really appreciate you and your numbers also if you just like to organize the town for this year in any subsequent years please email the the name to email would be jamie ryan you can reach him at  l p dot org that is v t l p dot org so now that we've got the town caucus things out of the way let's get to the good stuff so right now we have least the the outlines of it and what it's going to entail and as well as what's going on at the vermont airport we do have some second amendment updates as well and things to look forward to in our libertarian calendar so first thing first i like to decide away since i have it right here in front of me we can talk about the new tax bill and how it's going and least a senate section and house can affect you the most important thing i w talk about is the middle class and right now the way is looking as is that our taxes will go up anyone making between seventy five one hundred grand will be going up including the joint committee on taxation which forecasts that one in five households will see the bill go up with the next dicked decade as a loss in acted so by two thousand and nineteen eleven percent of households will be making certified hundred thousand dollars and actually we have someone on the line so let's cut to the line second dragon for self will be calling in to talk about that she has to speaking up about the town planet pownall and she found other liberty minded residents from various parties who agreed with her and she's been talking council plan which she says is is all about social engineering so we're looking forward to her calling in and then i just wanted to do a bit of a drug policy update which we it's a topic we often cover on the show here earlier earlier this year before the legislative session ended and he created the committee to focus on public health and safety issues it's the subcommittees will focus on highway safety education prevention and taxation and regulation and their first report from that committee is due to come out on january fifteenth and then they have another more comprehensive report due on december fifteenth of twenty eighteen so obviously nothing much is going to get done till december fifteenth in terms of a regulated market and we might not even see the legislature doing anything like the bill that passed last year before then either which would really be a shame because that would be after the next set of elections and we know this legislature was interested in passing a bill that included home growing and decriminalization even better decriminalization of vermont has now i just want to quote one dared roadside test which is something that the legislature and even the government if it was holding everything up for you know want to fly have a test that works just like an alcohol test and now scott's legal counsel j pushing johnson is saying that the dea ari's the drug reps and experts plus about the test on the show might be the only thing that's realistic to detect impairment on the road so as the other twist in this is that to him farmers in the state are now a little concerned that the recently one freedom to grow industrial hemp could be threatened but lieutenant governor days aquaman of course is on their side and he encourages them to contact him with their concerns so they can be addressed by the burlington vermont and more than a dozen partner organizations have converted a high traffic section of the bones an international airport into a change corridor or featuring information about substance use disorders the author of that article gary  an addiction pro reported that the drug testing company says the partnering organizations which include treatment organizations state agencies and the burlington police department came together to emphasize the viewing public that substance abuse disorder is a brain disease and not a choice this is basically what substances the sort of professionals have been saying for a long time is what the libertarian have been saying is that this is not this is not a crime this is you know if somebody is abusing drugs it's a problem that they need help with and trying to people in jail taking away their ability to keep a job things like that are not helping the problem so i just wanted to let people know that that displays on the second floor of the north terminal burlington airport and i just wanted to look in welcome to the show i hope you enjoy doing it and i'm looking forward to making a show even better with a few there and hopefully getting more people to contribute news you know looking for news and making comments on it and so thank you and everybody could join us at the what chuck report let's let's get a good libertarian go on for another decade crime and guy in a hotel shot hundreds of people at a at a concert concert venue and so one of the things i was target is a bum stock for those who don't know it's a bum stock it's an attachment automatic rifle even though it is configured for semi audit and so is now the new legislations especially massachusetts has is outlawing pump stocks so anyone who is caught with a bunch type is required to dispose of and so obviously there are people against it there are some people for it and so the free state project supporters there that they're pledging to move to new hampshire from the bay state asap and also as well as various other groups and obviously vermont being a very free gun state laws well we have no laws so to some that is a bad thing too many others as it's a good thing i feel like we are extremely responsible people who believe as of this year possibly last year according to the f b i we are not the safest gun state in the union we overtook new hampshire so i think one of the things we could be looking at is no how are we different i mean do we do have places like chicago who we have a many many people used to go has some of the strictest gun laws yet they have some of the highest gu crime rates so there are those arguments as gun control doesn't work and there are other arguments that chicago is a prime example of that but whatever your take on it is i think a discussion regardless needs to be ha liberty forum which would take place between february eighth to the tenth two thousand and eighteen at the radisson hotel which is downtown burlington we also have one in the manchester new hampshire and really burst tickets are available you can go to and age liberty forum dot com that is an h as in new hampshire review and h liberty forum dot com and other events will be coming up and as we find out more about them more information we will be letting you know posting on various websites especially at the libertarian website as my phone goes off so if i may go back to our tax to news the senate taxes and since as we all know things you can't cheat in life death and taxes though right now taxes is our biggest deal and back to what we're saying to what i was saying about but the middle class which is the majority of us here anyways if you're between seventy five hundred thousand dollars you're most likely going to see your tax go up and this is according to the joint committee on taxation which they forecast one in five households will see the bill go up if the laws enacted which by two thousand  possibly eleven percent of the populace of households so most of those people who are seems to house their income go up are earthy high income but according to some estimates like the tax policy center roughly nine percent of the middle class twenty percent of all their own earners will see a tax increase as soon as two thousand and eighteen which is next year with an average about thousand dollars in fees and we have an estimate from the pen horton budget motto which fin that the tax bill was shift the tax burden towards the higher earning groups but that won't be before two thousand and forty and possibly not if the bill raises the deficit now from a libertarian perspective you know tax cuts of always welcome and that is one of our models you know lower taxes more freedom i personally do see some benefits in this i would like to see a spending cut myself since there's no point in lowering taxes if you keep raising spending you just created a higher and higher budget deficit so that's just economic front of one income goes down you spend more you've got to make up that gap somehow and so for us we keep borrowing borrowing barring middle class since the senate plan according in relative to the house of representatives plan is devote facing criticism because they're adding wider tax breaks that benefit the wealthy in the bill for example repealing the taxes on large heritance in tax breaks for parents and children private schools and notably the senate tax plan is going to maintain the estate tax which doubles the current exemption effectively making in far more generous to those who have millions of dollars to pass on to the heirs so in conclusion for one of the things they're talking about in scrapping one of the things that they're going to be talking about is scrapping both state and local tax deductions which this is a part that affects vermont since we are a high tax state as so many of us already know so the senate plan is going to essentially deal huge blow to us the middle class is saying about the same point six million households which make for those of you who don't know the basics of inflation the government prints more money cost of everything goes up so if there was no printing of money you would have zero percent inflation so not respects it would be indexed to inflation which we placed a christer are currently in existence which would mean that some middle class families would end up paying more taxes than they would now meanwhile the senate bill is going to leave in some of those deductions which disproportionately are used by the upper income including the mortgage interest tax deduction which is always a high price high ticket item the senate plan will also scrap the turn of the minimum tax which generally targets high income earners because they can effectively make their tax rate lower than for some for example someone making a million dollars could have an effective tax rate that is lower than say so on like me not making a million dollars so someone who make a million dollars might have an effective tax rate of say fifteen percent meanwhile someone who's making thirty five fifty forty five thousand dollars who might have an effective tax rate of twenty twenty five percent and so that is a very big ticket item you might have heard warren buffett talk about that how his effective tax rate is lower than his secretary even though he makes tens of times more money than she does so that is a big thing to big ticket item a president jump who fully owed more than three one million dollars in taxes as of two thousand and five would also be exam for that to use that as another example so that's just some f s excerpts from the proposed plan from both the house and the senate and how it will and most likely will affect you if you are concerned about it i suggest you go online you know do your research and look at it obviously as time comes on and all these tax bills in details come out you can see them all over the news here for example the witcher group or and also on your local news and any social media you can you're going to start seeing so for so now that we've got that of the way things we need to talk about everything got the major agenda out of the way i would like to talk about me here again since and looks like i will be replacing bonnie as i said my name is the chase i am a libertarian i like to consider myself a classical liberal libertarian and so some of my background is i did i went to essex high school graduated and surely afterwards i was lost as most young kids i decided to join the military went into the navy spent six years of that you know some really good times and some really fun memories it is an experience i do not recommend it for everyone it requires rote missa life itself requires since obviously dedication it is an obligation it is a contractual obligation well so requires a certain mindset that you need and you to enjoy it i have fun while i do it i was doing it and  for some reason it clicked in my head that i wanted to do something else so i left decided to come back and go to school i went to you v m where i graduated with a bachelor in economics and that was fun i had professor wolfe who we have mentioned before and in the show and i was on the track team as well so i had fun being both active and getting an academic  education and then after that i got out and you know doing the job force realized a couple things like a i needed more education so for some unknown reason i've now decided to go back  a masters which i'm still planning on but we shall see well looks like we do have another color and i'm going to interrupt myself and see who we have here good evening you on the woodchuck report by you said you had questions for me to get me started talking about what's been going down and down all yes yes one of the things i wanted to at least have you recap the whole situation for those who do not know who have not a lot of back and forth with state versus local control of a lot of different things and the most recent thing that has happened is you know we have to ratify a new town plan and the state has created a system whereby when when you write your new town plan if you want to have deference at the at the top in the hillier for instance any kind of green energy siting anything like that you would have deference meaning that you get to go there and say you know what i really don't want this project there you get your town gets to have say if you do that you have to have all of these things requirements written into your town plan that almost makes the deference unnecessary if that makes sense yeah and so on there is a very big and pownall in particular i find a really huge philosophical divide regarding the role of government  versus the role of local community in making decisions who makes the best decisions where is it best to have the power centralized and there's a huge movement towards regionalization right now also through ak forty six the town planning planning the way that's been going on as far as our town plan is concerned a lot of language was written into the first one that was proposed that would have the potential to displace many people living in trailer parks we have one of the largest populations of people living in trailer parks in the state and under the guise of flood plain control a lot of language is written in there about literally moving people out of their homes and so many of us came and got our hackles up at the local town plant meeting and stood up against this and said why we were against having this kind of language written into the plan and in the bennington banner eventually what happened was a an article decrying the dangers of libertarianism in relation to this town plan  didn't want so much state control that we felt it controls much better localized and that it's night i think is naive mysen for the accused many of us through the town through the town planning process of spreading false information one woman had actually sent out a flyer and distributed in the trailer parks and the flyer literally only quoted the town plan it didn't have commentary it didn't nothing it just said this is what is in the town plan and here's where the meeting is if you want to say something about it also we started on our local front porch for him i thought we've it's everywhere now in vermont  several people started every day putting a new quote from the town plan no commentary and we were accused of spreading false information and then it turned they turned it into libertarianism and i believe they got the libertarian to quote because i on one of these front porch forums just said you know there was all this organization of democrats so i wrote on there is a response is there any organization of libertarians or republicans and i think they just opposition's those who are for what are they trying to get out of it well i mean i think there's again there's a philosophical divide and one part of that is this idea you know like quote unquote safe housing there's a very big push for wanting to build subsidized housing which i believe is just one little tiny part of this grand the idea of smart gro right so they're trying to implement these ideas a spark of they're trying to get people out of their cars building bike paths boosting more public transportation and also really controlling the way you're able to use your own land how you're able to develop or not develop your own property preserving cortical open spaces which you know maybe on the outset a lot of that sounds very good will of course there should be safe housing for people and of course we should protect these beautiful open spaces but really what it is it's really it's almost micromanaging to the nth degree our daily life and how we the people of our communities want to live in move through and actively develop and hold together our communities if that makes sense and so there is this one group of people that could that have the opposition towards it in my mind to have definitely more of a we know better big government trust in the government these are our ideals these are obviously the right ones so we need to implement all these rules and regulations that will come that will bring in our ideals and not caring or thinking about that people might well as a great man once said the scariest thing you can hear is i'm from the government and i'm here to help so it's a couple minutes left i like to wind on the show and say well thank you to all who is are listening who will be watching this in the future when the reader is again and this is that which i report and obviously in so in passing one of the things i like to add to you if you are interested or if you just want to know know what is libertarianism and know what it entails it is a very broad branch of as it was said philosophic thinking but it's also a little more than just phyllis watts sit philosophical thinking it is definitely a way of life in the catchall banner of no small government more freedoms is what we aim to provide but the thing is that there's more to that more to it than just that so go on line  there is the national libertarian party you can go to i gave you the email for chairman jeremy ryan if you'd like to have conversation with him definitely help us in our caucus and so we can at least try to end this so two minute the two party system so in conclusion i want to thank you again for watching the woodchuck report my name is v chase and and i hope you stay tuned to next time we have the show