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It's ironic that the it's the seniors who were asleep at the switch for so long while this ball got rolling who are now complaining their taxes. That generation voted for anything and everything - I remember my parents always talking about the CRAZY PEOPLE who voted against school budgets, their tune changed once we were all out of school!
Those old bastards took the money and ran anyway.
Boomer pigs sucked the Island dry, sapped us with every ridiculous pension on the planet and are now spending every dime in sunny Fla.
Remember when you could be an average Joe with a GED and your wife could stay home and raise the kids in reasonable middle class suburban comfort?
No, me neither but then again I'm not a Suffolk County Cop.
You can rightly ***** about the teachers too but keep in mind the 2nd income became more than hair and nails money in the 80s.
Mom needed a real paycheck and shorter hours to shoulder the tax burden and raise our kids. I can understand 80-90k for a Teacher.
What I cant understand 160k for a beat Cop or 500k for an Admin when many qualified folks are willing to do those jobs for far less.
Li is very much like the snake eating its tail.
Thanks Me Generation.
Greatest...my ass.
Crooks
Last edited by Crookhaven; 01-06-2012 at 09:20 AM..
It's ironic that the it's the seniors who were asleep at the switch for so long while this ball got rolling who are now complaining their taxes. That generation voted for anything and everything - I remember my parents always talking about the CRAZY PEOPLE who voted against school budgets, their tune changed once we were all out of school!
Excellent point, however I wonder if things might have been different had the news coverage of the day been similar to what we have now.
Boomer pigs sucked the Island dry, sapped us with every ridiculous pension on the planet and are now spending every dime in sunny Fla.
Remember when you could be an average Joe with a GED and your wife could stay home and raise the kids in reasonable middle class suburban comfort?
No, me neither but then again I'm not a Suffolk County Cop.
It's definitely legal..it's the assessment system that is causing the swings from one property's tax increase to anothers. If the residents in Plainview are not happy about it, they should focus on the fact that half the faculty earn over $100k/yr, and pay little to nothing for their healthcare and pension benefits.
Pequa if you have a Newsday subscription and can post in the "Comments" section you should post this there so maybe some of them will wake up and smell the coffee already!
Unlike in other parts of the U.S. where they vote on an increase in the property tax rate, in NYS we vote on the budget, not the "estimated" property tax rate, and then the actual property tax rate is calculated by dividing the budget by the sum of the assessed property in the taxing district.
And that's how they get us ... we vote on the budget not knowing how much it will actually cost us in the end!
On average 8%...yes 8% of the people allowed to vote actually do. Then they complain about it. When will people wake up, vote and take a stand on all this b.s.?....when everyone is losing their homes?
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Originally Posted by twingles
It's ironic that the it's the seniors who were asleep at the switch for so long while this ball got rolling who are now complaining their taxes. That generation voted for anything and everything - I remember my parents always talking about the CRAZY PEOPLE who voted against school budgets, their tune changed once we were all out of school!
On average 8%...yes 8% of the people allowed to vote actually do. Then they complain about it. When will people wake up, vote and take a stand on all this b.s.?....when everyone is losing their homes?
Excellent point! Nobody wants to be bothered to vote so what do they expect?
Excellent point! Nobody wants to be bothered to vote so what do they expect?
I voted to approve the admins $400k salary cause they threatened to take away the kid's plastic sporks at lunch and make them play football without helmets. What was I to do? I was terrified of the consequences!
I feared the thread would end up like this. It's just too easy! It's not just Suffolk PD. I just had dinner with a friend who makes $140k teaching 4th grade. We don't discuss it and she doesn't whine cause she knows my wife will reach across the table and slap her upside the head.
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