Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Summit Taxpayers Association Mission is a Moon Shot
Let’s demand an end to Union County wasting over $20M each year from Summit’s tax levy.
Next meeting November 27th Summit Middle School Room 118 at 7.30pm --- The Summit Taxpayers Association (STA) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to advocate for fiscally responsible government. Organized in 1943 exclusively to represent Summit Taxpayers, the STA mission is to reduce property tax increases in Summit to zero over three years, by 2014, through dialogue, non-partisan analysis regarding our City, School and County budgets. I paraphrase Jack Swigert, Lunar module commander on Apollo 13, to say “Summit, we’ve had a problem here”. Commander Swigert was referring to an explosion in the number 2 oxygen tank caused by a frozen “O” ring. I refer to the explosion in Union County spending and taxes. Each of these …
jeff goldstein
6:11 pm on Sunday, November 25, 2012
The voters from the rest of Union County that are benefiting from Summit's tax dollars outnumber Summit's voters so we will keep sending our money to be wasted by the freeholders unless we get our state legislature to abolish county government. I don't expect that to happen either so people who realize this don't move to Summit or move out when they get tired of being the Union County Freeholders… more ›