It’s admittedly an uncharitable thought. But I remember when the folks up in Killington wanted to secede from Vermont because they thought their statewide property taxes were too high.

One wonders whether, once their personal safety is assured, they might be making the connection between the help they are receiving now in getting Route 4 made passable, for example, and their taxes, perhaps regretting their former disdain for the works and costs of state government.

Naahh. To those folks, like their counterparts in NH, government is always too expensive, until their road is washed away; then once it’s fixed (to the likely accompaniment of entitled demands for faster work), they go right back to sneering at government work and governement workers.

On the other hand, maybe those tax seceders all moved to NH, and it’s only good-hearted and community-minded Vermonters left.

In either case, they need help after Irene, and they should get it. And it should make them think real hard about those taxes.