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A WAKEUP CALL FOR OUR TAXING DISTRICTS
Governments which are feeling the squeeze as much, if not more, than the rest of us (their
budgets rely in part on revenues estimated before the economy really started to tank this year)
must resist the urge to try to maintain the status quo by hiking income, sales, property and other
taxes that have an impact on middle income working families. Many of those families are one
paycheck—or one home heating oil delivery—away from defaulting on their own financial
obligations.
It’s time for governments to show (perhaps unprecedented) restraint when drawing up operating
budgets—BE THEY STATE, COUNTY, TOWN, OR SCHOOL, FIRE AND LIBRARY DISTRICTS.
Like the rest of us, government officials need to tighten their belts to make ends meet.
Excerpts from Suffolk Times Editorials, September 18, 2008
Governments which are feeling the squeeze as much, if not more, than the rest of us (their
budgets rely in part on revenues estimated before the economy really started to tank this year)
must resist the urge to try to maintain the status quo by hiking income, sales, property and other
taxes that have an impact on middle income working families. Many of those families are one
paycheck—or one home heating oil delivery—away from defaulting on their own financial
obligations.
It’s time for governments to show (perhaps unprecedented) restraint when drawing up operating
budgets—BE THEY STATE, COUNTY, TOWN, OR SCHOOL, FIRE AND LIBRARY DISTRICTS.
Like the rest of us, government officials need to tighten their belts to make ends meet.
Excerpts from Suffolk Times Editorials, September 18, 2008
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and awareness of the often unwarranted and frivolous
spending practices by our hamlet district agencies.
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SOUTHOLDVOTES.COM WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND SOUTHOLD LIBRARY PRESIDENT, MR.
DAVID FUJITA AND THE ENTIRE LIBRARY BOARD FOR UNANIMOUSLY AGREEING TO
POSTPONE THE LIBRARY EXPANSION ISSUE UNTIL OCTOBER 2009. THIS IS A CASE OF A
FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE TAXING DISTRICT PLACING THE WELL BEING OF ITS CITIZENS
FIRST, DURING THESE VERY TROUBLED TIMES.
OCTOBER 13, 2008
SOUTHOLDVOTES.COM WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND SOUTHOLD LIBRARY PRESIDENT, MR.
DAVID FUJITA AND THE ENTIRE LIBRARY BOARD FOR UNANIMOUSLY AGREEING TO
POSTPONE THE LIBRARY EXPANSION ISSUE UNTIL OCTOBER 2009. THIS IS A CASE OF A
FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE TAXING DISTRICT PLACING THE WELL BEING OF ITS CITIZENS
FIRST, DURING THESE VERY TROUBLED TIMES.
OCTOBER 13, 2008