I see Screwdriver dosent agree.......other town taxes are more some are less........but you go toa town like Paramus.and they pay less in tax and by far have a better town.......
You talk about school.........like what Lincoln school where they waited till the fire escape fell down veofre they fixed it.out school are from the stone age..........instead of a water park that everyone opne from Newark enjoys how baout building a school that is from the 21 century .
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Good Point? Are you also a graduate from Lyndhurst! Depending on your home in Paramus taxes are also high, the low taxes are on the moderate homes (old), and that is becuase the retail business balances out the taxes, the MALL!! helps.
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Paying a bit more in taxes isn't so bad if you have a good school system - like Paramus. But paying more in taxes so that out-of-towners can plop their butts in our water park all weekend, while our decrepit schools fall down is really bass ackwards.
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Encap was going to save Lyndhurst from itself, by financing the present with money from the future...See how well that worked out?
There is no substitute for REDUCING SPENDING! If the State and Local governments do not truly cut spending, the local taxes will continue to rise and there is no magic bullet to make it stop. Wait till the Federal or State Government begins mandated or Nation Health care....As Ross Perot used to say, that giant sucking sound you hear will be the sound of the Tax dollars being sucked out of your wallet.
Whether our tax dollars are wasted on an ignorant foreign war, or Homeland security, or national health care, there will be little relief to anyone anywhere. Taxes go up...not down.
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How about freezing taxes for all totally disabled and senior citizens? My parents have owned their home in town 50 years and on a fixed income, its a taxing hardship.
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How about freezing taxes for Families that have more than 3 children? How about for families that have someone that has been unemployed for more than 6 months? How about Families that were suckered into bad mortgages? How about those that the Fed will bailout of bad Mortgages? What about people with medical conditions that cost them too much for medicine?
Where do you stop the freezing? What set of conditions makes someone more "freeze" worthy?
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Ok so taxes can't be frozen, so then how about looking into some of the payroll for township employees. I bet they don't have any taxing worries. Part time employees make larger hourly pay then people that work full time jobs. I know a p/t dpw kid that makes over $15.00 an hour to pick up recyclables. Glad he is working but come on that is unreal. What do they get if they are full time?
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So now we need to limit the salary of workers so you can have lower taxes? I'm sure that kid has no expenses to speak of. Maybe he is just saving to buy a car or hoping one day to have enough money to be able to live without public assistance. Or he might hope to one day help out his elderly parents with their extremely high taxes.
How many times in your career, or any job that you have had, have you thought, Gee I make too much for my job? Maybe I should a) ask for a pay cut or b) look for a lower paying job?
The issue is not a simple one. Neither are the solutions. People want to get jobs and be able to live off them. You wouldn't want anyone telling you how much your job is worth, or how you should manage your budget. Services cost money. The town needs to purchase services and provide them for it's residents that seem to want everything done for them, for FREE. Once wasteful and unneeded municipal expenses are cut then the tax burden can be examined. Maybe people shouldn't expect so many services from the town if they are not willing to pay for them. Maybe the State and Local Governments should look to CUT and CONTROL spending and stop corruption. Oh but this is New Jersey and those things are just the normal way of doing business.
The Residents can best effect change with their fingers, starting at the top and working their way down. At the voting booth. Vote out incumbents that have come to believe that they are indispensable, or that it is their god given right to hold office. This begins at the Presidency, Senate and Congress, and the Statehouses and Local City halls. People like Frank Lauttenberg, and Paul Sarlo the Ringmaster of Encap that changed his spots and hid in the bushes when the going got tough, and he skated.
We the People should take Education funding back from Trenton and the Federal government and stop the flow of our education dollars to districts that overspend, and live off the backs of those that care about their communities. That would lower you education tax burden.
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