Don't worry, We will 'Take it away from them for the Common Good'.
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Posted on 08/10/2006 11:30:40 AM PDT by JZelle
MONTGOMERY, N.J. (AP) -- Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end.
She sent her children through Montgomery's well-regarded schools. And she enjoys the rolling landscape even as housing developments have spread across it in recent years.
But her property taxes have climbed 56 percent since 2000 to a knee-buckling $14,000 a year - a heavy load for a high school French teacher whose salary goes up only about 3 percent a year.
"Oh, it's terrible," Lehman said.
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Are these people stupid or what? They vote for tax-greedy Dim's and then complain about their taxes?
I wonder how hard it is to increase the supply of housing in the areas where taxes are going up the fastest.
How's that for irony? As a high school teacher, she's part of the freaking problem.
Don't worry, We will 'Take it away from them for the Common Good'.
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I used to live in NJ and did so for some 46 years beginning when I was a child. The answer to your question is yes, people from NJ are stupid. At least when it comes to electing their officials and then doing nothing as they rob the citizenry blind.
Instead of just scrolling past them all, please take a moment to click the applicable state(s) on the Topics screen when posting news of particular interest to people in that state.
Does she see the irony. Most property taxes are school taxes. Nearly 2/3 of every school budget goes towards salaries and benefits. The teachers of New Jersey are some of the best paid and have the best benefits in the USA. She is paying her overpriced taxes for her (and other) overpriced teachers...
The local Texas School/County/City rate is 3.25 percent of the appraised value. I wonder how this compares to NJ.
The average Ridgewood classroom teacher's salary was $70,246. That works out to $30 million for teacher salaries. For an experienced teacher with a master's degree plus 30 college credits, the pay was $90,000
And that is for working only 9 months a year, plus 20 days vacation, plus every holiday imaginable, plus carry over sick days, plus no cost health insurance, plus pensions that are 2 to 3 times better than private pensions, plus 1 year long paid sabbaticals, plus tenure (so you can't be fired)...etc.
And if you divide the salary by the number of hours you will find they are actually paid more than the average professional. For someone to say teachers are under paid are expanding the myth.
Amazing. Want to bet these teachers and social workers vote consistantly Dem? And now the taxes are so high they can barely live they want to move somewhere else.
Yoo hoo teachers - aren't you lucky you have a pension? How do you think all those poor slobs in NJ who don't have been living all these years, with the taxes you voted up for them? Now you're getting squeezed, and it hurts, doesn't it?
Ridgewood, NJ Police captain just retired from his $173,000 a year job. leaves with a one time pay out of $130,000. And a lifetime pension of $73,000. He is 48 years old.
WYCKOFF, NJ -- Students returning to school in September will see some new faces, with the retirement of two longtime administrators this summer.
Janet Razze, a former Warren County educator with a penchant for gardening and fly-fishing, has replaced Superintendent James Bender, who retired last month after seven years as the district's top administrator.is being paid an annual salary of $160,000, she said. Her predecessor, Bender, retired last month with a salary of $192,900.
How 'bout that: $33,000 in savings.
Wow!! $14,000 and I thought the $1500 (only have county taxes, no city) I have to pay every year was bad.
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