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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 2578511, member: 676"] So I finally read the article closely. Solid read. (One note - Lashlee wasn't the best OC and he wasn't even really close). I would say there is an even bigger underlying issue: In the last couple of days I did my taxes and received my town's proposed school budget. This is anecdotal but there are going to be a lot of people in this position. When the 10k cap on deducting state and local taxes is effective a lot of the people that have carried this state from a tax revenue perspective are going to have to take a long hard look. We've lost some of the big FFLD county whales over the past few years - but this bill is going to have tens of thousands of upper middle class families assessing things. My town's schools are pretty good and the superintendent we hired a couple of years ago is like watching Brad Stevens at Butler. The budget they are requesting is only looking for a 3% increase. Every single line item is reasonable: $2,000 for an assistant cheerleading coach. $10,000 for leveled books for Kindergarten. Fair enough. However, the town also passed a referendum for a new $19 million dollar town hall in November, by a handful of votes in what might have been a rigged election. At what point do you walk away? At the exact same time my state and local taxes effectively go up 20% the town has the nerve to bond $19 million dollars for a building we don't need? I bought my house 11 years ago, have invested 50+k in it and when I got a refi appraisal last year it came in 75k less than I paid originally and that was generous. Every third house in my neighborhood is for sale, and at least a half dozen people have just walked away and eaten the foreclosure in the last 18 months. The world changed, people aren't bound geographically. Those of us here only own the state pension liability if we choose to stay. Things are going to get bleak fast for UConn from a funding perspective. I would have expected by now that the students would have started to revolt over the subsidy. it's going to get interesting. I have to admit the hockey situation does make me laugh. When they condemn the XL Center in 5 years, I want to be on the phone when UConn tries to convince Hockey East that the Bolton Ice Palace is a suitable home. [/QUOTE]

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