Madeline and Jim O’Dell name names regarding the political group that brought the town to perpetual tax increases:
We also find it very odd that while all this criticizing and bashing is going on, no one is offering up any solutions. Also of interest is the fact that when Mr. Medeiros was asked — In a town where over 80% of the total budget is labor and benefits, how do you ever control the budget without labor concessions on all contracts, he never did answer this question, no matter how many times it was repeated.
The tax cap has become a “me, too” affair, with claiming it as an objective to stay beneath it. Unfortunately, for most of the people involved in local government it’s sort of an abstract goal; they aren’t willing to take any of the steps that would ensure that the budget does stay within bounds. Actually, we can probably combine the “steps” into just one: ceasing to give in to the union demands that have left public sector unions with higher pay than their private-sector counterparts and stratospheric benefits.
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