Also published online today over at the Asbury Park
Press is the following letter by Gerry
Deceglia, a resident of Middletown. I don't know Mr. Deceglia but he makes a
valid point pertaining to tax revenues and spending cuts as they pertain to the
Township budget. While I don't think he wrote is 100% accurate, it does show a
level of frustration that residents have towards those that have been running
Middletown for the past 30 years:
Words cannot describe how deeply upset I am that
not even a full year has passed since Middletown officials last raised property
taxes, and now they are at it again.
Politicians do not seem to care one bit how
impossible it is becoming for citizens to even breathe under all this excessive
taxation.
People are struggling to find and/or hold
on to their jobs, keep their homes, keep food on the table, deal with
$4-a-gallon gasoline, and Middletown officials want to raise our taxes again?
All in order to pay for higher health care costs for township employees that
they themselves should be paying for?
We residents simply do not have any more
money. Along with having township employees pay more into their own health care
plans, just as private-sector workers are being forced to do, what about
township officials making some real spending cuts across the board to fall in
line with current tax revenues?
This excessive taxation is no longer just
simply unfair. It is downright diabolical. It is also unsustainable.
The definition of tyranny is oppressive
government. How many other Middletown residents feel that government has become
oppressive? If you feel as I do, please come to the meeting on April 30 at the
town hall in Middletown and speak up.
Do not allow these politicians to force us out of
our homes, our town, and our state. Enough is enough!
Gerry Deceglia
Middletown
