Once again, while Readfield residents deal with inflation in many forms, including heating oil, gas, groceries, electricity, insurance and health care costs, while IRAs and 401 Ks dwindle, forcing them to make cuts in their household budgets, for our combined town government, it’s business as usual increasing spending in many departments and pushing many non-essentials. Twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars in non-essentials, most items only used by a small percentage of the town population for a small percentage of the year yet paid for by all taxpayers, an amount more than twice the amount for things like heat assistance and general assistance and other beneficial projects. In many cases putting individual pet projects into larger categories making it harder to vote against them.

They are also still pushing this recreational field area after taxpayers made it very clear more than once that it’s not needed. American wasteful entitlement spending at its worst. Remember, grant money isn’t free money.

The only way to stop this behavior is by voting down all non-essentials wherever in the warrant and the fairgrounds project, hopefully forcing our town government to be as responsible with our tax dollars as we are forced to be in our own personal household budgets. It’s not that hard to do, help make it happen.

 

David Hepfner

Readfield

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