Holy cow, my school tax bill jumped 10.5%, what happened to that 2% tax cap?

I almost had another heart attack when I saw my new property tax bill.

It's up almost 7 percent over last year.

Almost all of which is because the drunken sailors on our local school board hiked their tax bite by a whopping 10.5 percent.

Ten point five percent.

A double digit increase, when property taxes are supposed to be held to a 2% cap. By law.

What the hell is going on with the Caldwell - West Caldwell Board of Education?

Have they lost their minds?

Have they no shame?

Because this tax increase in unconscionable.

But this is what happens when the Democrats in our state legislature, who are of course a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers union, decided to stop letting us vote on the school budget.

Without the voters to curb their profligacy, the school board runs amok, screwing the taxpayers with abandon.

So here's a special "thank you" to CWCBOE President Paula Getty, Vice President Thomas Adams, and board members Marie Lanfrank, John King, and Dan Cipoletti: You are a disgrace. You have failed in your fiduciary duty. You are unfit to call yourselves representatives of the hardworking taxpayers of Caldwell. You embody everything that is wrong with out-of-control government spending in this state. You have forgotten those of us who are affected by your wanton disregard for any semblance of budgetary restraint.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

But that would require you to actually care about us taxpayers. Which clearly, you do not.

Posted at 12:08 by Chris Wysocki   [/caldwell]   Comments | Perm Link |
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