I am going to posit here that this FTX topic is indeed an important Vermont story of ongoing importance, and part of that argument goes to my refrain regarding no magical borders to protect Vermont.

I picked that "no magic borders" up as a concept and phrase through discussions regarding Vermont's sales taxes. It was one of those phrases that I heard from those folks who pointed out how a higher sales tax on one side of the Connecticut River would result in more business for the other side where a sales tax didn't even exist. (Yes, Vermont and New Hampshire)

The massively corrupting influence of big money in ALL of our politics, just like the sales tax, knows no magical borders that will protect us.

You can shut me out all you want. I honestly couldn't care. But don't shut out the corruption of big money in our politics. (And yeah - if you've reached this point - I've won, because you'll remember the big money out of politics thing.)