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Reduce costs, lower taxes

Posted 5/1/15

Why are Ogdensburg school taxes increasing? What is the justification for this increase? The people and local businesses cannot afford this. There has to be a way to perform school business and …

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Reduce costs, lower taxes

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Why are Ogdensburg school taxes increasing? What is the justification for this increase? The people and local businesses cannot afford this. There has to be a way to perform school business and reduce costs, and not put this burden on the local taxpayer. It is done everyday in business to remain competitive. One area I see is that there is too much middle management in school administration business. It’s a waste of taxpayer money. Why do schools need so many assistants? To me it looks like it's a way to shuffle off their responsibilities. We should make school leaders perform their responsibilities without assistants. It would save money for taxpayers along with benefits. There other ways to reduce costs also. It would not take much creativity to reduce cost. The only creative way is lets make the locals pay higher taxes. One solution would be let everyone become and create their own business and apply for tax exemption for the next 10 years under Gov. Cuomo. At least the people will have 10 years of relief. Lets get creative and actually work hard to reduce costs instead of the easy route and just simply increase taxes. This country needs to learn to reduce costs without increasing taxes.