Vermont has a troubled recent history with expensive, state-wide public initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform#Green_Mountain_Ca

Vermont has a troubled recent history with expensive, state-wide public initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform#Green_Mountain_Care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform#Gre... The elimination of rent-seeking behavior from healthcare and Internet service is great, in theory. For whatever combination of reasons, the state government of Vermont and city government of Burlington have had difficulty putting this theory into practice.