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A SOMBRE DAY!
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 17, 2020, 3:00 am
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Monday March 16th was a day most of us will not forget in a
hurry.
It was the day many of America’s businesses closed their doors.
It was a day that for many small businesses will be their last.
It will be the start of a flood of foreclosures as folks will
default on their mortgages. It will be the start of a slump in
property values. Property assessments will need lowering.
Walking through Wegmans in Perinton was an eerie experience.
Somber faces of customers and Wegmans employees, and empty
shelves everywhere. There were slim pickings indeed.
At our last meal in Applebees we were told they were closing
their doors to customers at 8pm that night, and had no idea when
they would open again. All the bar tenders and waiting staff had
lost their jobs. So many people work in these service industries
because we have come to rely on imported products, we have a
very small manufacturing industry left. All those people are now
wondering how they will survive, because many of them live from
paycheck to paycheck. They are YOUR neighbors. Remember,
Fairport schools have 23% of children who are receiving free
school meals, because they are officially below the poverty
line. I'll bet a large percentage of them are single parent
families with the parent working in low paid jobs like the
restaurant industry. This must be devastating.
Meanwhile, we have those working in ‘government’ jobs, who don’t
have to worry. Their pay is guaranteed. Their medical bills are
covered, their property taxes are covered. They rely on the rest
of us to pay for them through taxation.
Which brings us to the other harsh reality for Perinton and
Fairport residents.
Our ‘government’ has just imposed a harsh raise in assessed
property values. Our taxes have gone up enormously in the past
already.
Our town supervisor (who is paid more than $112,000 a year)
spent an evening at a public meeting trying to fob us off with a
comparison of the tax hike he has just imposed with another
Town, Webster.
But, this was a rouse, a red herring. He should have compared us
with all the other towns along the canal. If he had done that,
he would have realized Perinton residents are paying more than
TWICE THAT OF EVEN PITTSFORD. (see the ECNA charts). He would
have realized our taxes have more than doubled in the past ten
years.
To add insult to injury, these ‘government jobs’ boys have
imposed a $65,000,000 school tax hike on us for the most
frivolous expenditures, like plastic grass on playing fields
etc). We have just forked out for a new bus depot which some are
calling Fairport’s Taj Mahal.
These people are spending our money with careless abandon! We
are being taxed out of existence. HOW DARE THEY!
Now the schools are closed, people are beginning to realize
there are going to have to be some changes. Do we actually need
to have our kids herded into these petri dish germ infested
places? Is there now a case for reduced hours at schools? Can
we use online teaching methods? Our world is changing -
rapidly.
The NY State GRACE act has been passed to help towns and village
reduce the tax burden, but our ‘officials’ don’t seem to have
any clue about it. Residents need to embrace this law and FORCE
our officials to implement it NOW!
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With so many small businesses about to go bust, our local
Perinton town officials need to put a halt to their unaffordable
schemes, and immediately cancel the $65,000,000 school project,
and repeal the property tax hike.
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Re: A SOMBRE DAY! AND THEN ----
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 18, 2020, 5:44 am
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51939392
As the Trump administration seeks a $1 Trillion economic
stimulus package, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
reportedly warned Republican senators privately on Tuesday
evening that if Congress failed to act this could happen:
US unemployment could hit 20% - almost double the jobless rate
during the Great Recession after the 2008 financial crisis.
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Re: A SOMBRE DAY!
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 18, 2020, 5:46 am
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HTML https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/irs-extends-tax-payment-deadline-coronavirus/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=c286d932dc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_18_02_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-c286d932dc-98057681
Treasury pushes tax payment deadline back 90 days due to
coronavirus
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Re: A SOMBRE DAY!
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: July 3, 2020, 5:06 pm
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It's the third of July, and things are worse now than the day I
started this thread. A mssive rise in COVID infections, thanks
mainly to irresponsible people not wearing masks and partying as
if they were immune to this.
I predicted we would start losing businesses and the very first
one was quite the shock. THE BONEFISH at Eastview. Doors slammed
with no notice - gone! Permanently it seems.
Almost next door The DISTILLERY. closed permanently.
My wife and I eat out lot, so we've been to several restaurants
just lately. I cannot imagine how most of them will survive,
they have very few customers.
Best service = Applebees!
No news from The Village of Fairport - they are still in denial.
Still implementing their tax hike. It's time this village was
dissolved. It will save us all a ton of money.
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