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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Debt Free who wrote (154361)1/14/2011 2:15:25 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542560
 
In the last ten years I've been involved in local government--among other things, president of the library board and now on the board of education. In each case, any cuts at the level that would reflect something taxpayers would see doesn't cut fat, it cuts genuine services. The reason for that is both institutions have been laboring under caps for much of the decade. Those caps were never enough to cover the increasing costs of everything--healthcare, pension contributions, books, salaries, and so on. As a result both have been pairing back and back and back.

There are, of course, small things. But not the sorts of things that would hold property taxes even. For that to happen, services will have to be cut. We get less.

As for whether the local stuff has served us well, it certainly has. We have terrific local schools and libraries. Much of northern Jersey is very well served in that respect.
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