Would beleaguered Vermont taxpayers also vote for raising taxes to fund their own Vermont Guard?
Fifty-two communities in Vermont are, in effect, determining their own foreign policy today voting on a referendum that would urge state leaders to stop sending the state’s National Guard (search) troops to war. The resolution would also ask President Bush to immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. The issue was raised across the state at Vermont’s annual Town Meeting Day (search), where residents usually gather to vote on local issues. But the Washington Times reports that the referendum is part of a growing anti-war sentiment across the state including in Brattleboro, Vermont, where officials removed the phrase “freedom is…
