Welcome, Guest.
Please login or register.
Rotterdam 11.6% property tax hike
Rotterdam NY...the people's voice    Rotterdam's Virtual Internet Community    Inside Rotterdam  ›  Rotterdam 11.6% property tax hike Moderators: Admin
Users Browsing Forum
No Members and 182 Guests

Rotterdam 11.6% property tax hike  This thread currently has 7,681 views. |
8 Pages « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 » Recommend Thread
bumblethru
October 9, 2010, 8:36pm Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
30,841
Reputation
78.26%
Reputation Score
+36 / -10
Time Online
412 days 18 hours 59 minutes
Quoted from B GAGE
Raising taxes 11%...unreal. Great time to talk about a stupid dog park.


Ya think????


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
Logged
Private Message Reply: 45 - 111
rotterdamres
October 9, 2010, 10:09pm Report to Moderator
Baby Member
Posts
39
Time Online
1 days 13 hours 40 minutes
how come the school budget (which affects tax payers tax rates) is voted upon by the taxpayers.... but the Town budget isnt
Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 46 - 111
GrahamBonnet
October 10, 2010, 6:38am Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
9,643
Reputation
66.67%
Reputation Score
+16 / -8
Time Online
131 days 7 hours 47 minutes
When I got the democrap mailers last fall that said that the republicans raised taxes too much, I KNEW THE OPPOSITE WAS TRUE! THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T RAISE TAXES ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

SO WHAT NOW- THE REPUBLICANS ARE GUILTY OF NOT RAISING TAXES ENOUGH AND THE DEMOCRAPS ARE GUILTY OF LYING. HOW SHOULD I FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THIS?


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Logged
Private Message Reply: 47 - 111
CICERO
October 10, 2010, 7:51am Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
18,232
Reputation
68.00%
Reputation Score
+17 / -8
Time Online
702 days 15 hours 7 minutes
Great point GB!  How his tune has changed.  The guy runs for office because his taxes went up - now as Supervisor he proposes this!

This is from the Spotlight - 7/15/09

Quoted Text
Del Gallo, a Rotterdam resident for 35 years, has never held political office before.  

“The bottom line is if they voters are happy with what they’ve got and who they have in office now, then there’s no reason for them to vote for me, but if they’re not happy and they want a change and they feel like I’m capable of changing the town, which I know I am, then they will vote for me and that’s that,” said Del Gallo.

He said that if he is elected, one of the first things he wants to do is figure out why taxes are so high in the town and how they can become more affordable.

“I went to protest tax rates at a hearing. There were people who could hardly walk. There were people who are older than I am and not as healthy, and they were over there protesting their taxes,” said Del Gallo.


“What are you doing to these people? They collect a Social Security and a pension that’s 30 years old that doesn’t amount to anything,” said Del Gallo.


http://spotlightnews.com/spotlightnews/article.php?article_id=tZ1247686085t4a5e2dc5a52d0


Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 48 - 111
CICERO
October 10, 2010, 7:54am Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
18,232
Reputation
68.00%
Reputation Score
+17 / -8
Time Online
702 days 15 hours 7 minutes
Quoted Text
He said that if he is elected, one of the first things he wants to do is figure out why taxes are so high in the town and how they can become more affordable.


Giving Bobby I a zoning change must be the solution to the high taxes, since that was the first thing on the aganda.


Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 49 - 111
DemocraticVoiceOfReason
October 10, 2010, 10:29am Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
12,321
Reputation
20.83%
Reputation Score
+10 / -38
Time Online
151 days 7 hours 5 minutes
Quoted from rotterdamres
how come the school budget (which affects tax payers tax rates) is voted upon by the taxpayers.... but the Town budget isnt


That is the way the State laws were written --- not all school budgets are voted on ... there are ways to
formulate a school district that doesn't allow for a public vote.

For all intents and purposes,  the "Charter Schools" are publicly funded schools without voters being
able to vote on the budget  --- the local school boards (elected by us) can't even tell a Charter School
what it can or can't spend.    I am 1000% against Charter Schools .. have been since day one.  They
are undemocratic ... no voter oversight ...  have had a spotty record of achievement at best  .. and have
been breeding grounds for corruption.

Personally, I think that a county the size of Schenectady should have ONE school district - ONE school
board - one school superintendent.     It doesn't make sense that Mohonasen is looking to build new
classroom space while Schalmont is contemplating closing school buildings.  
Each of the 6 District Superintendents in our County is making well over $100,000 a year .. add the
cost of their office support staff and operational costs ..just of the Suoerintendent's Office ---- EACH of
those offices is spending at least $1,000,000 a year ----- reduce it to ONE office --- the $5 million in
savings could be used to cut taxes.


George Amedore & Christian Klueg for NYS Senate 2016
Pete Vroman for State Assembly 2016[/size][/color]

"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Logged
Private Message Reply: 50 - 111
bumblethru
October 10, 2010, 10:38am Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
30,841
Reputation
78.26%
Reputation Score
+36 / -10
Time Online
412 days 18 hours 59 minutes
FDG is not and was not qualified for this position in rotterdam. FDG and crew campaigned on and promised to resolve the tax issue! NOT!

And what is even funnier, is that this present admin is blaming the past admin for using town revenues for keeping taxes unrealistically too low. HMMMMMMMMMMMM.......Isn't that the same EXACT thing that Susan Savage is doing!!


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
Logged
Private Message Reply: 51 - 111
DemocraticVoiceOfReason
October 10, 2010, 3:50pm Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
12,321
Reputation
20.83%
Reputation Score
+10 / -38
Time Online
151 days 7 hours 5 minutes
Quoted from bumblethru
FDG is not and was not qualified for this position in rotterdam. FDG and crew campaigned on and promised to resolve the tax issue! NOT!

And what is even funnier, is that this present admin is blaming the past admin for using town revenues for keeping taxes unrealistically too low. HMMMMMMMMMMMM.......Isn't that the same EXACT thing that Susan Savage is doing!!


Mr. DelGallo has done more to move the town forward in 9 months than the  2 most recent GOP
administrations did in all of their time in town hall combined.

He more qualified for this position than the previous supervisor -- works harder --- cares more --- and not
one person in the Perpetual Negativity Choir is worthy of even polishing his shoes.


George Amedore & Christian Klueg for NYS Senate 2016
Pete Vroman for State Assembly 2016[/size][/color]

"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Logged
Private Message Reply: 52 - 111
Shadow
October 10, 2010, 4:31pm Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
11,107
Reputation
70.83%
Reputation Score
+17 / -7
Time Online
448 days 17 minutes
Could you be a little more specific on what FDG has done because most of us don't see the same thing you do. You make very general statements but never give us any details.
Logged
Private Message Reply: 53 - 111
GrahamBonnet
October 10, 2010, 5:24pm Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
9,643
Reputation
66.67%
Reputation Score
+16 / -8
Time Online
131 days 7 hours 47 minutes
Ron means- Moving forward, reaching out, including the stakeholders, building a consensus, working together, thinking outside the box, using all of the tools at our disposal, informing our decision, executing a plan, being inclusive, speaking to our motivations and goals, building bridges, developing a consensus...


All of that and two bucks gets you a hamburger at Mickey D's

All stupid jerk-off generalizations you get from the flunky azz pubic sector where the sycophants and lobs can't get sh!t done for jack...they sit around and stroke each other off for twice as much compensation and a third of the results, over quadruple the amount of time. They would be eaten for lunch in 3 seconds in the private sector in a capitalist economy except for the ones who can BS better than the rest....


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Logged
Private Message Reply: 54 - 111
senders
October 10, 2010, 5:53pm Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
29,348
Reputation
70.97%
Reputation Score
+22 / -9
Time Online
1574 days 2 hours 22 minutes
Quoted from GrahamBonnet
When I got the democrap mailers last fall that said that the republicans raised taxes too much, I KNEW THE OPPOSITE WAS TRUE! THE REPUBLICANS DIDN'T RAISE TAXES ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

SO WHAT NOW- THE REPUBLICANS ARE GUILTY OF NOT RAISING TAXES ENOUGH AND THE DEMOCRAPS ARE GUILTY OF LYING. HOW SHOULD I FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THIS?


like the rest of us.....with stiff back from bending over too much....... >


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 55 - 111
senders
October 10, 2010, 5:56pm Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
29,348
Reputation
70.97%
Reputation Score
+22 / -9
Time Online
1574 days 2 hours 22 minutes
rednecks without vision....well except for each dollar that they can grab from eachother and stick under a mattress......

come on folks there's a bigger picture......if we dont paint it the gangs will.......THIS IS TRUTH.....we've seen it........dont hide...you live here.......

dont listen to the leaders they are shortsighted,......let's tell them what we want.....let's make a plan and GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE WANT VALUE FOR OUR TAX $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 56 - 111
bumblethru
October 10, 2010, 6:58pm Report to Moderator
Hero Member
Posts
30,841
Reputation
78.26%
Reputation Score
+36 / -10
Time Online
412 days 18 hours 59 minutes
Quoted from bumblethru
FDG is not and was not qualified for this position in rotterdam. FDG and crew campaigned on and promised to resolve the tax issue! NOT!

And what is even funnier, is that this present admin is blaming the past admin for using town revenues for keeping taxes unrealistically too low. HMMMMMMMMMMMM.......Isn't that the same EXACT thing that Susan Savage is doing!!


..........shall we try this again???


When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche


“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.”
Adolph Hitler
Logged
Private Message Reply: 57 - 111
DemocraticVoiceOfReason
October 10, 2010, 7:55pm Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
12,321
Reputation
20.83%
Reputation Score
+10 / -38
Time Online
151 days 7 hours 5 minutes
Capitol Plaza  ..vacant eyesore .. torn down and a new restaurant and bank rising on the site

Eckerd's on Guilderland Ave  .. vacant eyesore ...   gutted and rehabbed about to open with a Paesan's
  Pizza and Laundromat

Edgewood Restaurant .. vacant eyesore ... about to be torn down to make way for an new bank

Woestina Little League Field ... eyesore -- neglected for years ...  two ballfields, clubhouse, and parking
   area revitalized  AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYERS

Draper School .... vacant eyesore ....  going to be rehabbed into housing for Veterans

BOA Study started in Rotterdam Junction --- will put together a revitalization plan for that hamlet and
    bring Federal, State, and Private grants to implement the plan

Parks Commission ... completing long talked about but never completed vision plan for the town-wide
    Parks and Recreation system

(in my best Frank Sinatra voice )  the best is yet to come .... oh baby ... won't it be fun [face=Verdana][/face]


George Amedore & Christian Klueg for NYS Senate 2016
Pete Vroman for State Assembly 2016[/size][/color]

"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Logged
Private Message Reply: 58 - 111
GrahamBonnet
October 10, 2010, 8:51pm Report to Moderator

Hero Member
Posts
9,643
Reputation
66.67%
Reputation Score
+16 / -8
Time Online
131 days 7 hours 47 minutes
You really don't have a best Frank Sinatra voice. Why? Because you are very unconvincing while trying to take credit for things that you know you can't take credit for. FAS was never unconvincing.


"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Logged
Private Message Reply: 59 - 111
8 Pages « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 » Recommend Thread
|

Rotterdam NY...the people's voice    Rotterdam's Virtual Internet Community    Inside Rotterdam  ›  Rotterdam 11.6% property tax hike

Thread Rating
There is currently no rating for this thread