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New Canaan "A high tax town"

The train left the station already

When reading last week’s Advertiser front page story “Mallozzi to Board of Ed – Help us keep taxes down”, my first thought how incredulous. Is this a joke? Is the Advertiser now the publicist for the First Selectman’s office? What a coincidence! The week that we all receive our tax invoices showing a 6.6% increase in the mill rate on top of a 4.4% increase last year the story published is that the Town Executive and Chair of our Board of Finance now wants to lower taxes.

The increased Mill Rate also will increase the taxes we pay on our automobiles by at least 6.6% this coming fiscal year.

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Has not the train left the “Next Station to Heaven Already? The Headline should have read: “New Canaan residents see largest tax increase – Taxpayers to Mallozzi stop spending”. Last quarter GDP fell a staggering 2.9%, consumer spending is lethargic (increased only 1/10th of 1%) and our home values are well below their value before the mid to late 2000’s market crash.  So why is our budget and bonding spiraling out of control?

During the Town Council debates last fall I was the only candidate to predict the aforementioned and request an analysis of duplication of effort amongst town hall and the BOE. But of course being honest and not political ruffled the status quo and I was labeled controversial.  Where is the outrage when financially inexperienced leaders mislead and continue to over spend your tax dollars?

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Now those who are responsible for wasting millions upon millions of dollars, raising our taxes and signing off on an inaccurate reassessment are crying: “that living in New Canaan is becoming unaffordable”. Remember the “Boy who cried Wolf”.

It is time we elect leaders with the proper financial, managerial and business acumen, not friends because their families were here decades ago. That is the kind of narcissism and nepotism that bankrupts corporations. So oh yes Mr First Selectman I agree; let us start running New Canaan like a corporate business. A Corporate CFO would never have rubber-stamped the total departmental budget request as your Board of Selectman and you did. He/she would have cut the fat, funded the essential and put away the rubber stamp! The train has already left the station.

Roy A Abramowitz CPAMBA


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