To the editor:
1. Budget #1 will increase our property taxes 3.5%. Who can afford this on top of Tiverton’s already high taxes? Budget #1 is a nonstarter.
2. Budget #3 will increase taxes …
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To the editor:
1. Budget #1 will increase our property taxes 3.5%. Who can afford this on top of Tiverton’s already high taxes? Budget #1 is a nonstarter.
2. Budget #3 will increase taxes 1.7%. But under #3 the town will lose $428,081 in library state aid and reimbursement. We cannot let this happen. Budget #3 is a nonstarter.
3. Budget #2 will increase taxes by only 0.9% — the lowest option on the FTR ballot and the only option based upon ‘what taxpayers can afford’ – how it should be.
4. Budget #2 "remands" the budgets back to the Budget Committee for line item modification to conform with the voter approved 0.9% bottom line increase.
5. Budget #2 is the only ballot option that will allow the Budget Committee to set library funding exactly equal to the prior year which protects the $428,081 state library aid and delivers maximum taxpayer value.
6. Budget #2 increases, that's right, increases the current municipal and school budgets. Pro-tax naysayers who claim Budget #2 "cuts" the current year budgets are flat out lying — just look at the numbers.
7.. Budget #2 "cuts" the proposed 3.5% tax increase to a more manageable 0.9%.
Tell Tiverton's officials that you have had enough of the excessive spending and to sharpen the pencil by voting for the .9% Budget #2.
Jeff Caron
Mr. Caron is the former Chairman of the Tiverton Budget Committee and a former Co-Chair of the Financial Town Meeting Changes Advisory Committee.