Incumbents Ignore High Taxes

I've lived in Atlantic County for more than 45 years but am new to Egg Harbor Township, where I have just moved in with my daughter. She pays more in taxes for her condominium than my husband and I paid for our first lot on lakefront property when we were just starting out. I do not know how young people today can afford to own their own homes. Every year I hear politicians talk about property taxes. How much worse does it have to get before they actually do something?We cannot keep electing the same do-nothing people and expect things to change. I am especially disgusted when I hear our current assemblymen, Kirk Conover and Frank Blee, say that we should return them to office to convene a special session of the Legislature. They have had more than a decade to do this and haven't. Why should we believe them now? I'm glad I moved to this district in time to vote for Democrats Jim Whelan and Damon Tyner for state Assembly. They support a citizens convention on property taxes, and so do I.

DAHLIA G. FAYTER

Egg Harbor Township

Letter published in Press of Atlantic City, November 2, 2005

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