CRIS ERICSON’s TAX REVOLT
alternate title: VERMONT TAX REVOLUTIONARY SNOW JOB CONGRESS IS PULLING ON US
I finally found the specific statute that I believe is the cause of the rich getting richer, and Bernie Sanders claiming he doesn’t take corporate donations!
How many times has U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and other politicians,said that they do not take political campaign contributions from corporations?
How many times has U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told us the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer; all the while, all these long, long, long years he has been in political office, nothing has gotten better. In fact, it has gotten multitudes of times worse!
O.K. So, here is my newest analysis. I also want to report that NO ONE has joined my proposed new minor political party, yet. I am still looking for a holiday miracle. Time is running out fast under Vermont statutes to qualify to put candidates on the 2026 election ballot. VermontParty.com
Now, here is what I want you to know. And believe me, I have gotten kicked out of social media all over the internet for posting this, and for posting my attempts to start a new political party.
If you send me a message on most social media, I can not respond, because they make it look like I’m there, but I’m not, they permanently banned me. People may think I’m not nice for not responding to their messages, but I can’t. So, just call me at home (802)875-4038 Cris Ericson.
Here we go, now pay attention, O.K.?
(1) All corporations pay taxes, even if it’s just 50 cents.
(2) Not all corporations receive subsidies.
(3) You pay taxes to the IRS and then the US Congress votes to give your hard earned tax dollars to their choice of corporations as “subsidies”. Those “subsidies” are your hard earned tax dollars. Your money is going to the choice of corporations selected by the US Congress, not to all of them. Just to some of them.
(4) I believe we should demand that corporations should pay taxes
PLUS a share of their profits made with our tax dollars in the form of “subsidies”.
With “subsidies”, these few selected corporations produce products and sell them internationally for billions $$$$$ of dollars in profits, but they don’t give us any share of the profits even though they made their profits with our hard earned tax dollars.
we are being cheated.
(5) Here is my new formula
Taxes
+
Share of profits from subsidies
=
more money for programs for people of all ages with all kinds of needs.
Now, elected politicians like Bernie Sanders have never, ever, ever told you how this scheme really and truly works. Bernie is the biggest con artist on this planet, in my opinion.
O.K. here is how Bernie claims he is not taking political campaign donations from corporations!
The corporations which receive our hard earned tax dollars as “subsidies” then
donate to 26 United States Code section 501(c)(4) groups (NOT 501(c)(3) groups),
because 501(c)(4) groups are allowed to donate money to PACs, political action committees,
unlike the 501(c)(3) groups which can not donate to political action committees.
SO, then the political action committees (PACs) which received money from the
501(c)(4) groups then donate to the political campaign funds of the elected members of the United States Congress House and Senate who voted to give “subsidies” to the 501(c)(4) groups who donate to the PACs which donate to the Members of the US Congress who go along with this, what I call a money laundering scheme.
Seriously, that’s how I see it, a money laundering scheme.
Our tax dollars are in Bernie’s pockets, re-routed, the trail too fuzzy for the average Democrat to comprehend, and God forbid the Republicans should leak this information out.
Corporation funded with subsidies >>> 501(c)(4) group >>> PAC >>> Bernie and his buddies in the US Congress.
And so, Bernie keeps telling us that he doesn’t take donations from corporations.
Bernie keeps telling us the rich are getting richer.
Of course the rich are getting richer because the US Congress chooses which corporations will receive subsidies, and how much $$$ of a subsidy they will receive.
And of course, they are only going to choose corporations who will swear to re-route money to the campaign accounts of members of the US Congress.
You got a better theory?
ha!
Now, remember, time is running out, I need 4 Vermont voters in each of 10 Vermont towns to start a new minor political party, and each town committee has to give public notice 5 days advance of their caucus/meeting in a public place. So, I figure, Christmas is the deadline. Merry Christmas! And if you aren’t willing to join my little Vermont tax revolution, then don’t whine about your taxes, O.K.?
Fair enough?
Cris Ericson (802)875-4038 http://VermontParty.com
If you are willing to start a town committee, please follow these instructions! Thank you so much!
If you are willing to organize a town committee, please read and do your best!
Call me anytime (802)875-4038 Cris Ericson crisericson7@gmail.com
(1) find 3 friends or neighbors or towns people first who are willing to help start a new minor political party,
(2) then decide on a date for your caucus at least 5 days ahead of the caucus and call Cris Ericson and give her the date (802)875-4038.
(3) You must select a public place for the caucus in your town. You must put up a NOTICE in your town clerk’s office and one other public place in town. If there are more than 5,000 people in your town, it must be on a public website or newspaper. The NOTICE must state that the purpose of the caucus is to start a new political party, and it must state the location of the caucus, and the date and hour.
(4) Designate yourself as the acting town chair of the party for your town.
(5) All “caucus” members must be registered to vote in your town or in an adjacent town.
(6) Tell the caucus members to vote for “town committee” members, at least 3, and also to vote for you, so you have 4. Once they vote, that finishes the “caucus”.
(7) Then, immediately the “town committee” begins with you asking them to vote for you as town chair, and vote for co-chair, secretary and treasurer.
(8) Then take cell phone photos of the town committee officers, yourself as chair, the co-chair, secretary and treasurer who now make up the town committee.
(9) The town chair should also ask the other town committee officers to designate the chair as the town’s State Committee member.
(10) Write down the names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and emails of the town committee members and send them along with photos of them to acting state chair Cris Ericson crisericson7@gmail.com and by cellphone to 1(802)-289-1000.
(11) As soon as there are 10 town committees organized like this, then acting chair Cris Ericson will call a state committee meeting by zoom, preferably before Christmas.
(12) The NAME of the NEW PARTY will be VOTED for,
and forms will be filed with the VT Secretary of State Elections Division to request that the party be certified as an official minor political party in Vermont, allowing our new party to put candidates on the 2026 official election ballot without having to collect petition signatures.
Vermont Laws for Forming a NEW MINOR POLTICAL PARTY
Title 17 V.S.A.: Elections
Chapter 45: Political Parties
The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the
2024 session of the General Assembly.
Chapter 45: Political Parties § 2318. Organization of MINOR POLITICAL PARTIES
A minor political party may organize in the manner set forth in this subchapter or in another manner that its members deem appropriate. Minor political parties shall comply with the filing requirements of sections 2307, 2311 to the extent applicable, and 2313 of this chapter, except that they need not be organized in 30 towns or in seven counties. They shall also comply with the procedural requirements of sections 2303 through 2306 and 2313 of this title, but need not comply with other procedural requirements in sections 2301, 2302, 2308 through 2310, and 2312 of this title. Minor political parties shall also comply with sections 2314 through 2317 of this title.
§ 2303. Town chair to give notice
(a) The town chair or, if unavailable or if the records of the Secretary of State show there is no chair, any three voters of the town shall arrange to hold a caucus on the day designated by the State chair, in some public place within the town and shall set the hour of the caucus.
(b)(1) At least five days before the day of the caucus, the town chair shall post a notice of the date, purpose, time, and place of the caucus in the TOWN CLERK’s OFFICE and in at least one other public place in town.(2) In towns of 5,000 or more population, he or she shall also publish the notice:(A) in a newspaper having general circulation in the town; or(B) in a nonpartisan electronic news media website or online forum that specializes in news of the State or the community.
(c) If three voters arrange to call the caucus, the voters shall designate one person among them to perform the duties prescribed in subsection (b) of this section for the town chair.
§ 2304. Town caucus (a)(1) At the time and place set for the town caucus, the voters of the party residing in the town shall meet in caucus [the caucus means the registered voters of the town who showed up] and proceed to elect a town committee, consisting of such number of voters of the town as the caucus deems necessary, to serve during the following two years or until their successors are elected or appointed. (2) Additional members of a town committee may be elected by the town committee at any meeting, and may be eligible to vote on matters before the town committee at that meeting or at the next meeting, as determined by the members of the committee before the election.(b) The voter checklist used by the caucus shall be the most recent checklist approved by the board of civil authority.
.§ 2305. First meeting of town committee (a)(1) The first meeting of the town committee shall be held immediately following adjournment of the caucus. (2) At this meeting, members of the town committee shall elect committee officers and delegates to the county committee. (b) All officers and other members of the town committee and all delegates to the county committee shall be voters of the town.
.§ 2306. Procedure upon failure to hold caucus: If the voters of the party residing in any town fail to hold a caucus on the day designated by the State chair, any three or more voters of the party residing in the town may call and hold a caucus at any time thereafter, in the manner provided in sections 2303 through 2305 of this chapter. Those voters calling the caucus shall designate one person among them to perform the duties prescribed in section 2303 for the town chair.
.§ 2307. Certification of officers and county committee delegates(a) Within 72 hours after the caucus, the chair and secretary of the town committee shall submit to the chairs of the State and county committees [ SEND EMAILS TO ACTING STATE CHAIRPERSON CRIS ERICSON with PHOTOS OF NOTICE OF MEETING, NAMES, ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS OF ALL TOWN COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CAUCUS AND MEETING to: crisericson7@gmail.com ] a copy of the notice calling the meeting and a certified list of the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mails of the officers and members of the town committee and of the delegates to the county committee.
(b) A committee is not considered organized until a certificate of organization is filed by the State committee [ ACTING STATE CHAIRPERSON CRIS ERICSON ] with the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2313 of this chapter. (c) The Secretary of State shall furnish forms for this purpose to the chair of the State committee of a political party. [Acting State Chairperson Cris Ericson crisericson7@gmail.com (802)875-4038 ]
.§ 2311. Certification of county officers and State committee members (a) Within 72 hours of the first meeting of the county committee, its chair and secretary shall submit to the chair of the State committee a copy of the notice calling the meeting and a certified list of the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mails of the officers of the county committee and of the members elected by the county committee to the State committee. (b) A committee is not considered organized until a certificate of organization is filed by the State committee with the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2313 of this chapter. (c) The Secretary of State shall prescribe and furnish forms for this purpose.
§ 2313. Filing of certificate of organization (a)(1) Within 10 days after the first meeting of the State committee of a party, the chair and secretary shall file in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate stating that the party has completed its organization for the ensuing two years and has substantially complied with the provisions of this chapter.(2) However, no State committee shall be eligible to file a certificate of organization unless it has town committees organized in at least 30 towns in this State and county committees organized in at least seven counties by January 1 of the year of the general election. (b) The certificate of organization shall: (1) set forth the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mails of the officers and members of the State committee, together with the counties that they represent; (2) contain a listing of the towns and counties in which committees have organized; (3) designate, in not more than three words, the name by which the party shall be identified on any Australian ballot; and( 4) be accompanied by a copy of the notice calling the meeting.(c) The Secretary of State shall prescribe and furnish the form to be used for this purpose. (d) Upon receipt of a certificate of organization, the Secretary of State promptly shall notify all persons who have registered with the Secretary of State asking to be notified of such filings. (e)(1) Within 10 days, the Secretary of State shall accept a certificate of organization if it appears to be valid on its face or reject it if it is not. (2) The Secretary of State may reject a certificate of organization if the political or other name is not substantially different from the name of any organized political party. (3) When a certificate is rejected, the Secretary of State promptly shall notify the chair and secretary of the committee to inform them in writing of the reasons for rejection. (f) A committee is not considered organized until the material required by this section has been filed and accepted.
§ 2314. Officers required
Every committee of a political party is required to elect a chair, a vice chair, a secretary, and a treasurer, who need not be members of the committee at the time of their election, but who become members, with full voting rights, upon their election. A committee may also elect from among its members such other officers as it deems appropriate to its work.
§ 2317. Voters not to participate in more than one party
A voter shall not vote in a town, county, or State caucus of more than one party in the same 12-month period, nor shall any voter simultaneously hold membership on the committees of more than one political party.
Title 17 : Elections Chapter 045 : Political Parties (Cite as: 17 V.S.A. § 2319) § 2319. Party conventions for platforms On or before the fourth Tuesday in September in each even-numbered year, [2026 an EVEN NUMBERED YEAR] upon the call of the chair of the State committee of the party, a party platform convention of each organized political party shall be held to make and adopt the platform of the party.
Title 17: ElectionsChapter 49: Nominations Subchapter 2: NOMINATION BY PARTY COMMITTEE § 2381. Applicability of subchapter(a) A candidate may also be nominated and have the candidate’s name printed on the general election ballot in accordance with the provisions set forth in this subchapter, in the following instances:(2) In case a minor political party desires to nominate a candidate for any office for which major political parties nominate candidates by primary or for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States;(3) In case of nomination for the office of justice of the peace, in the event that such nomination has not already been made by caucus as provided in section 2413 of this chapter.(b) In no event may any committee nominate a candidate or candidates for statewide office under this subchapter unless the political party has TOWN COMMITTEES ORGANIZED IN AT LEAST 10 (TEN) TOWNS in this State in accordance with procedures in chapter 45 of this title.
THIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE TOWN COMMITTEE ORGANIZED IN AT LEAST TEN (10) VERMONT TOWNS IN 2025 TO QUALIFY TO PUT CANDIDATES ON THE OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT IN 2026!!!
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Title 17: Elections Chapter 049 : Nominations Subchapter 002 : NOMINATION BY PARTY COMMITTEE Vermont Statutes Title 17. Elections, § 2382. Which committee to nominate: Current as of January 01, 2024 Nominations of party candidates pursuant to this subchapter shall be made by the following political committee of the party: (1) By the State committee in the case of President and Vice President of the United States or State or congressional officers; (2) By the county committee in the case of county officers; (3) By the senatorial district committee in the case of the office of State Senator; (4) By the representative district committee in the case of the office of Representative to the General Assembly;(5) By the town committee in the case of the office of justice of the peace.
(Cite as: 17 V.S.A. § 2386) § 2386. Time for filing statements (c)(1) In the case of a nomination by a minor political party, a statement shall be filed not earlier than the fourth Monday in April and not later than 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday preceding the primary election described in section 2351 of this chapter and not later than 5:00 p.m. on the third day prior to the day of a special primary election.(2) A statement shall apply only to the election cycle in which the statement is filed.(d) In the case of a nomination for the office of justice of the peace, a statement shall be filed as set forth in section 2413 of this chapter.
Chapter 41: Purposes, Short Title, Definitions § 2101. Purposes This title is intended to carry out the mandate contained in Article 8 of Chapter I of the Constitution of the State of Vermont. In this pursuit, the specific purposes of this title are: (1) to provide equal opportunity for all citizens of voting age to participate in political processes; (2) to assure that political campaigns are fairly and honestly conducted and financed; (3) to define unacceptable conduct among political candidates and public servants; (4) to ensure that public service will be in the public interest, rather than the special interest of groups or individuals; (5) to encourage citizens to become more actively involved in the political processes that affect the quality of life; and (6) to provide uniform practices and procedures in the conduct of elections