Opinion: Two Wrongs Won’t Make It Right
Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff In politics, being seen to do something is almost as important as actually doing it. So it was perhaps inevitable that aggrieved blue-state leaders in California, New York, and now New Jersey would push half-baked ideas for thwarting or working around the recent federal tax bill’s “devilish” limitation on state and local tax (SALT)…
given at our expense, to school districts, their administrative fiefdom, the unions’ fiefdoms, the unproductive and under- performing social programs that are never curtailed or ended, the hiring excesses in the local towns that clog the broke pension system, the non- checking and sloppy payments of bills, in many entities, it goes on and on, are some of the problems many of us are sick of paying: I live for the year that the words “ grants,” “subsides,” “ funding,” “ line items,” etc, are stricken from the public domain and discussion: replaced by the words, simply: “ taxpayer dollars!” -Maybe then, some people will wake up to how much is literally stolen from hardworking citizens, every single fiscal year- then perhaps, they would pay more attention, and, demand much better stewardship of our money, at all levels!