LETTER: Beacon Hill Tax-and-Spend Philosophy Comes to Stoneham
The following Letter to the Editor was submitted by Stoneham resident and former Board of Selectman R. Paul Rotondi.
[Editor's note: The following Letter to the Editor was submitted by Stoneham resident and former Board of Selectman R. Paul Rotondi.] The Beacon Hill Gang (BHG) is coming to confiscate Stoneham taxpayers’ wallets. One if by the community preservation surcharge, two if by making the trash fee permanent and three if by eliminating the 2 ½ percent limit on yearly operating budget increases. Stoneham’s real estate tax revenue is forecasted to increase dramatically over the next few years as a result of the completion of four major developments. The BHG’s goal is clear, to use this money to feed the never ending appetite of the local government bureaucracy, rather than to use it to provide taxpayer relief. Their strategy is to go beyond …
Paul Rotondi
9:00 am on Sunday, January 6, 2013
Jed: I would like to thank you for proving the talk about the existence of the uniformed voter is not a Myth. First, the Budget Agreement wasn’t mine; it was approved by the Board of Selectman unanimously and by a majority of the Finance Board and School Committee. Second, it doesn’t tie the hands of the departments; departments have complete authority to spend their money as they see. It merely … more ›