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Bill W. had Vermont• connection From News Reports RUTL A ND A RTS
RUTLAND | “Bill W.,” the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), who spent his formative years in Rutland, will be honored as the subject of the seventh statue along the Rutland Sculpture Trail. William G. Wilson, known as “Bill W.,” was born in Dorset and moved to Rutland as a youngster.
Wilson was born Nov. 26, 1895 behind the bar of a hotel in the midst of a snowstorm. His family moved to Rutland several years later, where he stayed until his parents divorced, and he returned to Dorset to live with his grandparents at age 11. » Bill W. Cont. on pg. 3 3
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Rutland jury Vermont Vermont has has nation’s na ion's th th convicts 4 4 highest highest tax ta Vermont burden burden Railway burglar From News Reports RUTL A ND COUNT Y STATE’S AT TORNEY
RUTLAND | Following a one-day trial, a Rutland jury convicted Eric Bryan, 39, of Rutland, of attempted burglary and unlawful mischief for his role in the Jan. 15, 2017, attempt to break into a Vermont Railways System’s building, located at the train yard off of Strongs Avenue in Rutland City. Bryan’s co-defendant Richard Bates previously pled guilty to attempted burglary. Rutland P.D. Officer Nathan Harvey and Detective Ryan Ashe went to the train yard after police received a report that two men were cutting through the fence to enter the train yard. During an inspection of the buildings in the train yard, the officers found a freshly cut fence. The officers continued their search for the intruders. When the officers rounded a corner, they came face-to-face with Bryan and Bates. Bryan and Bates were in the process of prying open the inner door to a Vermont Railways System’s building. They had already forced their way through the outer door. In the process of forcing through the outer door, they broke the latch to that door. When the police confronted Bates and Bryan, Bates attempted to flee. Officer Harvey pursued and was able to swiftly bring Bates into custody. Bryan was taken into custody without further incident. » Rutland jury Cont. on pg. 3
Kaj Samsom: “This year the governor introduced the repeal of the Vermont Land Gains Tax and an increase in the Estate Tax exemption...” Pictured: Samson speaking with professional tax preparers last year. Photo by Vermont Department of Taxes
By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
MIDDLEBURY | A new online report shows that Vermonters have a lot of reasons to sing the blues: they have one of the United States’ highest state tax loads to bear. The new report by WalletHub shows that Vermont has the fourth highest overall tax burden in the nation along with the second highest property tax burden compared among the 50 states. WalletHub, an online personal finance website, released its 2019 tax burden by state report earlier this month which
doesn’t show Vermont in a very good light, tax wise, when compared to neighboring states and the rest of the Union. Only New York, Hawaii and Maine come up as bigger overall tax-burden offenders compared to Vermont. According to WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez, who helped prepare the new report, “Vermont has the fourth highest overall tax burden, at 10.77 percent. Property taxes make up almost half of this percentage. At 5.12 percent, Vermont has the second highest property tax burden in the country. Sales taxes take up close to a third of the tax burden, while income taxes represent 2.31 percent of each resident’s personal income.”
According to WalletHub’s Gonzalez, a simple ratio known as the “tax burden” is easier for the public to understand compared to tax rates. Data used by WalletHub to create the ranking were collected from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, of Washington D.C.. According to the online report, with rankings showing “1” as the highest and “25” as the 50-state average, Vermont scored fourth in overall tax burden, second in property tax burden and 26th in the individual income and sales and excise tax burdens. » Vermont Cont. on pg. 3
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