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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
School budget shenanigans: "no tax increase" means "your taxes are going up"
I knew it was too good to be true. Earlier this month, with great fanfare, Caldwell - West Caldwell Board of Education Secretary and Business Administrator Ronald Skopak announced a "no tax increase" budget.
Except that when the budget was adopted yesterday the school tax rate changed from $1.11 to $1.14.
Now it's been a long time since I was in school. And I was in school long before "the New Math." But I'm pretty sure $1.14 is more than $1.11.
So, when translated from duplicitous BoE-speak, "no tax levy increase" really means "your taxes are going up."
My record will therefore remain unbroken. I've never voted "yes" on a school budget in my life, and despite my earlier misinformed enthusiasm, I'm not voting "yes" now.
Don't piss up my back and tell me it's raining Mr. Skopak, and don't say there's "no tax increase" and then raise my taxes.
That's what us taxpayers call "lying."
Posted at 17:13 by Chris Wysocki
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