Vermont is doomed

As we suffer here in Vermont trying to figure out if we need to stand or squat to pee, our Legislature is doing everything in their power to drive the working class out of Vermont. The increased fees on everything we use, vehicle registrations, etc. Now the carbon tax is about to take effect which will add around 70 cents per gallon to the price of heating oil and gasoline, and this money will go to support more welfare programs for corrupt ignorant politicians in the Democratic party.

We are learning that electric vehicles are a nonstarter. We who understand history back further than the end of our noses, understand our universe is a violent, ever-changing place and we are yet a pimple on its backside. We still are trying to save the world which we clearly have no idea where it came from, and we do know of several ice ages and severe hot periods throughout its history predating mankind. So in short, stop drinking the liberal cool aid and understand this is a weapon used to steal your money and redistribute it, in a lot of cases to some of the working poor you stole it from in the first place.

With rising property taxes, high interest rates and home sales out of reach for the working class in our state and beyond, now a fuel tax, we are pretty well screwed. I want to remind folks they can control this at the ballot box. Our three stooges in Windsor County all three who have never worked a day in their lives in a real job, McCormack, White and Clarkson, have never seen a tax bill they have not supported, including the fuel tax. They need to go. They and their party nave destroyed this state for the business community and the working class. If you are a freeloader, maybe a community activist from out of state, you love these folks, like I said. They are the real problem.

Douglas Tuthill

West Hartford

NH transgender ban
makes sense

N.H. Rep. Alexis Simpson, D-Exeter, claims “there is not a categorical advantage” that males have over females in sports (“NH House passes transgender ban,” March 23). Using the term “categorical” dances around the facts. I shall state outright that males hold a distinct, inherent advantage over females on a competitive sport level. Pre-puberty distinctions between males and females are negligible, if any. Thereafter, the differences are significant. In professional sports, where men reign, there is not one female on any of the teams, even though there is no “male only” policy. They simply are not built to perform on that elevated level. Which is precisely why women/female categories have long since been established.

Yet at the moment female athletes are in effect set in a category where they are expected to complete against males. At a lower level of competition (adolescence in general), the issue is of modest concern, unless the trans girl is of exceptional talent and posses a very real challenge to the others.

Post-puberty and early adulthood are altogether different. Males in this age range are not in jeopardy of losing their positions, but females now are.

Sha’Carri Richardson holds the women’s world record in the 100 meter dash. Which means she is faster than any other woman in the world, as well as every other man, minus the 4,000 or so males who can equal or better her world record time. A tiny percent of the world population, yet the significance is profound.

Regardless of the actual numbers involved, allowing male bodies to participate in female sports at grade school level may appear kind and “inclusive,” yet by doing so is that not creating a false reality, where sought after equity re-creates outright discrimination of a prior era, and unwarranted failure down the line? The realities of the larger, outside world are much less tolerant of illusions.

Richard Bircher

Lebanon

Biden’s Israel policy
is confusing

How do we reconcile the Biden administration sending aid to Gaza and at the same time providing bombs and money, without restrictions, to Israel? The president talks about advising the Israeli government to restrain their actions, but, when asked, justifies this with the increasingly disproportionate claim that Israel has the right to defend itself.

Peter Valiante and Ingrid Braulini

Grantham