Ugh...Nassau politics and property taxes...

[Smash255]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

So it's a token attempt to make the system look a little better to the property taxpayers and is not geared towards actually attacking the problem and lowering taxes for us.

Yes, and its what he, Schmitt and company have offered going back to 2005. It was bs then, and its bs now. They used it as a tactic to confuse the people who don't know how the assessment system works in order to make them think freezing assessments will reduce taxes even though it won't.

What this will do is delay any tax increases someone who adds extensions or renovations to their home, by not counting the increased value for several years. Which actually impacts everyone else's taxes due to the fact the extra $$ collected from the extension isn't being collected.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Smash255

Going with someone whose record in the Legislature showed he was beholden to the Gullotta and Schmitt way of doing things, supporting the absurd contracts, etc is not better than Suozzi... Though that is a different argument.

I know, but in this 2 party system we sometimes have no choice when it comes to getting rid of someone but to vote for yet another sketchy character. Nobody wakes up enough to realize there are other dwarf political parties too and some even have decent candidates; they just focus on the 2 mammoth ones.

It's more of a statement to current politicians: Beware! Don't be so complacent! We are not the idiots you think we are and we will not continually reelect you! My game plan is to keep shuffling them out of office until they wake up and realize they have to do something for us for a change. Then someday we might actually get politicians worth reelecting. (I know its just a faint hope ... especially in Nassau.)