Remember tax reduction’s importance on Election Day
Several days ago I received the first installment of our 2006 property tax billing. Needless to say there was a minute reduction of $50.91, just about enough to purchase mine and my wife’s groceries for one week. What ever happened to the meaningful property tax reductions that our so-called elected officials, both state and local, were talking about in the news media some months ago? The Act 72 proposal regarding the legalized gambling in our state was to help finance the proposed reduction. Other means of reducing property taxes were also discussed, but to no avail. As of late you do not hear this subject matter being acted upon by our legislature.
All our elected officials both state and local know how to do is talk and argue among themselves. All talk and no action is their way of doing business, nothing gets done. Again, we, as residents and property owners must pay the price. Where will it end, when we are put out on the street?
This is an election year and hopefully we can do something about it. We must elect only those candidates that run on a platform of property tax reduction and will be held accountable for it if elected. This year’s elections are critical in getting meaningful property tax reduction as a reality and not just a pie in the sky dream.
As a senior citizen, property owner, voter, and taxpayer, I sincerely hope that all of our residents take heed to the importance of the upcoming elections; if not, they will be detrimental in our quest of getting to meet our goals. Wake up voters, this is our one big chance, do not blow it.
Sometime ago the Herald-Standard published an article referring to the number of residence who had lost their homes due the face they could not afford to pay their property taxes. Could the Herald-Standard please inform us once again of the properties that were sold because of this pending situation in year-end 2005? Thank you.
John Sostak
Lemont Furnace