LETTERS

Tax cut is doable

Posted 7/21/15

To the Editor:

We the citizens of Warwick would like to thank Mayor Avedisian and the Warwick city council for giving us all a 3 percent tax increase on real estate. This is on top of a similar …

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LETTERS

Tax cut is doable

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To the Editor:

We the citizens of Warwick would like to thank Mayor Avedisian and the Warwick city council for giving us all a 3 percent tax increase on real estate. This is on top of a similar type increase last year. This is what we in Warwick all needed after just emerging from the great recession- and into an uncertain economic future.

But seriously folks, the recent tax increase was something we did not need, if anything taxes should have been cut by 3 percent! Apparently Mayor Avedisian and company have not learned the fine art, the fine art of cutting taxes with due diligence. 

Managers in private industry deal with cost cutting on an almost daily basis! But with lots of tax revenue coming in, I can see how this skill could be overlooked by Mr. Avedisian and his department heads. A manager in private industry would begin by cutting costs from the top down. Apparently the managers in Warwick believe in adding to costs, rather than subtracting from costs.

A good place to start cost cutting is from the top. In Warwick, how about cutting the salaries of anyone making over 80 thousand a year. A cut of 5 percent would reasonable. In government there is always waste, not so much at the local level, but it is still there. Compared to private industry, I am sure there is more “fooling around time.” Maybe department heads could do away with wasted time and come up with a more compact (and cheaper) workday, and I am sure also that “supply orders” could be cut by 5 percent.

A reduction in taxes next year of between 3 and 5 percent is very doable thing. Everyone would be a winner. City workers could still have a nice place to work and the average taxpayer would have a little more dough in their pocket

Kevin Vealey

Warwick

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  • adogsmom

    Kevin, There has been a yearly tax increase in Warwick for as long and I can remember. Its an automatic thing here . When I first bought my home and got the increase ,I called city hall about it. The clerk I spoke to told me herself that its automatic every year . If there's anyone out there that's been a home owner for a long time in Warwick ,please come forward and tell us the last time there Wasn't an increase. No, it shouldn't be the norm to strap us tax payers with the bill that gets too over budgeted .We're real people with real lives just trying to survive. We deserve better.

    Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Report this

  • fenceman

    Keep staying away from council meetings. Stay quiet and dont call out the mayor and his policies. Stay silent and dont hold your council person accountable. Keep electing the same incompetent people. Keep writing the checks!

    Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Report this

  • FASTFREDWARD4

    when linc was in the corner office , We had back to back no tax increase. Check the records plus over 20mil in the corner pocket

    Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Report this