The Green Mountain State’s independence movement isn’t going away.
by Will on February 6, 2010
Will writes from Washington, D.C. (well, Arlington, Virginia). You can reach him at willblogcorrespondence at gmail dot com.
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Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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nope its not going away. many well meaning people will spend their energies on this and get to complain mightily about the government. nothing is going to actaully happen or change, but they’ll get to prance around a lot.
Let em prance, bless their hearts, the silly little hippies. Texas gets to do it, why not Vermont?
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