If only the town of Great Barrington could get its hands on 50 bitcoins.
There would be no overrides.
No cuts in services.
No increase in property taxes.
And much less finger-pointing at our town meeting.
But clouds of immeasurable wealth are beyond the reach of Great Barrington’s town treasurer. Instead, we are straddled with a pre-industrial form of taxation in which dirt was the basis of payment for the local needs of our cyber era.
Property taxes should not fund education and ambulance services. This is the fundamental underlying challenge that Great Barrington voters confront.
Public and private health insurance companies are defaulting on their obligations to provide ambulance services, driven by the desire for profits and politics at a national level. Our outlandish health insurance premiums and government funds dedicated to health should be directed toward the penny-conscious work of our EMTs.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is melting away from its pledge forty years ago to mov…
