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anon-921r
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 Posted: Tue, Feb 11 2014, 6:37 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Budget, No Police Force Reductions and Tax Increase.... |
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| anon-opp6 wrote: | I don't have time to attend these meetings, as the vas majority of the town does not. And how dare you turn this around to somehow blame us, the majority for not going to meetings and such.
I/we elect individuals and expect them to keep their campaign promises.
I/we expecrt them to do their job.
There are those of us who work very very hard to just get by to support their families and can't afford the irresponsible decisions made at local, county, state and federal level.
I do not have time to do our elected politicians jobs as well.
I will make time to see others get elected. |
Look, I don't always agree with the TC, but I can't fault them here.
You don't attend the meetings and therefore don't really know how hard the TC worked.
You don't have the time to try and help the town by offering suggestions because you work. Our TC also work full time jobs and yet do this to help the town and get attacked (ok maybe the don't like the attacks). I work as well, but have made time to attend some meetings.
You expect them to do their job, which may necessitate raising taxes, but then blame them for doing their job as fiduciary stewards of the town.
You will not make time to help the town, but you will make time to ensure other people are elected?
I don't want to pay more taxes and I am sure the TC does not either since they pay taxes too. Look at who is on our TC- one person is a grandmother, one just had twin babies, one has kids near college age, one is near retirement age and the other has two kids. I think they'd all personally benefit from not raising taxes.
You say irresponsible decisions, tell us what your ideas are. If they are valid, then tell the TC by email or someone here I am sure will let the TC know. |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Tue, Feb 11 2014, 8:16 pm EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Budget, No Police Force Reductions and Tax Increase.... |
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| anon-opp6 wrote: | I don't have time to attend these meetings, as the vas majority of the town does not. And how dare you turn this around to somehow blame us, the majority for not going to meetings and such.
I/we elect individuals and expect them to keep their campaign promises.
I/we expecrt them to do their job.
There are those of us who work very very hard to just get by to support their families and can't afford the irresponsible decisions made at local, county, state and federal level.
I do not have time to do our elected politicians jobs as well.
I will make time to see others get elected. |
Who isn't keeping their campaign promises, precisely? I am not aware of a single current member of the TC who in their most recent campaign promised never to raise taxes. The only Republican on the TC specifically had approved tax increases during his first term so it would have been no surprise to any voter than he might vote for this again. And personally I would be skeptical of any candidate who believed they could make a blanket promise to never raise taxes when they can't possibly know all the particulars of future budgets and annual revenue at the time they are running. I would prefer someone who promised to take a careful look at all expenses and make an informed decision based on the available facts at the time. And by your own admission you have no idea whether any member of the TC didn't do exactly that since you didn't attend the meetings or review the publicly available information they were reviewing in the meetings.
You say you don't have time to participate. You realize the TC members all have jobs as well? Yet next time you plan to vote for someone who promises something that have no idea whether it will be a sound policy in future years. It's a free country but that doesn't sound like a very informed decision. |
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howdare?-60oq
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| Posted: Wed, Feb 12 2014, 8:27 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Budget, No Police Force Reductions and Tax Increase.... |
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| Not sure that I agree with the attempt to jump to some moral high ground...It's a legitimate question. What effort was made to provide input to help town committee members understand what is/is not an important thing to keep in the budget? Costs rise. Taxes will unfortunately rise or services are cut. Yes, it is important to look for cost savings without cutting services too. Elected officials ("politicians" according to the poster) should be representing majority interests when it comes to services...but I don't know one on committee that is a mind reader. If something is or is not important to a resident it is up to them to voice that preference. Most people are busy. In the time it took you to write "how dare you", etc. on this posting board, a brief email or call could have been sent to a board member voicing your position. Again - voice an opinion or you'll be left facing a decision made without it. |
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CranburyB-6n71
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| Posted: Thu, Feb 13 2014, 10:19 am EST Post subject: Re: Cranbury Budget, No Police Force Reductions and Tax Increase.... |
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| anon-1254 wrote: | Our tax rate is the lowest in the county. Mayor stated 1.83 for Cranbury.
Plainsboro 2.4. South Brunswick 4.5. |
South Brunswick 2014 equalization ratio is 45.98% so comparatively speaking they are more like 2.43 |
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