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Ed Ladouceur is right. It's time for taxpayer relief.

My campaign was to "Cut - Taxes, Cut - Spending".

My plan included a salary cut for new employees, starting with my own. It included a moratorium on building permit fees which would cost small money up front while collecting more in real estate taxes forever, and tax rebates to attract new home buyers which, again, costs small money to receive big money over the long haul. These are some of the things that would lower taxes for all Warwick taxpayers. Mayor Avedisian has a plan as well. His plan is to raise taxes every year. We can't afford his plan any more, and I think he knows it.

At the finance committee meeting a few nights ago Rob Cushman noted that we have a budget. We overspend the budget. The departments ask for more. We give it to them and they overspend that money too. He posed the question "Why do we even have a budget if it is completely ignored?" I agree. Ernie Zmyslinski, the Warwick Finance Director, stated that "The budget is easy to understand if you just know how to read it." Seriously Ernie? I don't know an intelligent person in Warwick that believes our budget should be ignored, especially to the extent that ours is. The taxpayers deserve a budget that we can hold all departments accountable for. The budget should be the most a department should spend, not the least. Warwick should reward those departments that under spend and penalize those that over spend.(another part of the Corrente Plan)

Ed Ladouceur is right. It's time to take care of the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. It's time to "Cut Taxes - Cut Spending."

Thanks Ed, for holding the line for the taxpayers.

Happy Spring everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor