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Kent Fiscal Watch will hold its monthly meeting tonight at the Kent Firehouse, located at 2490 Route 301, Carmel NY. The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM. Our guest speaker will be Brenda Taylor a founding member of Parents in Action; Parents in Action is a group dedicated to issues involving the Carmel Central School District. I read your account of the Katz/Hayworth meeting in the Putnam County Times, which was held at the Patterson Town Hall on March 19, 2011. According to the article Jeff Green of Kent stated “that there is a correlation between increasing jobs and increasing the taxes on wealthy people and corporations.” Assemblywoman Nan Hayworth responded by stating the Italian Economist Alberto Alesino conducted a study of “20 Nations that were in fiscal crisis [such] as we are facing.” Hayworth further stated that Alesina’s study concluded that “countries that cut taxes and cut government spending did well.” First, Alesina has conducted numerous studies and the only study I could find that closely approximates that dates of the fiscal crisis was published in 2009 and the data used for the period ended in 2007, well before the 2008 collapse. In addition, Congresswoman Hayworth, at least according to the article, did not identify which 20 countries Alesina studied. However, a review of Alesina’s study demonstrates that the countries studied were members of the OECD. A review of the statistics of the OECD countries, while not exactly contradicting her claim, does not support her contention that lower taxes leads to higher growth. The [...] Kent Fiscal Watch is holding its monthly meeting on Thursday, March 24, at the Kent Fire House located at 2490 Route 301, Carmel NY. The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM. Our guest speaker will be former County Legislator Anthony Fusco. Mr. Fusco will speak on the issue of Term Limits, which will be followed by a Q & A session. Coffee and Refreshments will be served, so please feel free to attend and bring your questions. If you have any questions and plan to attend you can contact me at JDKJJK@Yahoo.com Jim Kirk Anyone who remembers the movie “Network” certainly remembers the refrain from that movie, which was “I am mad as hell, and I am not going to take it anymore.” Well you the voter in the Town of Kent should also be “Mad as Hell.” The Town Board’s decision to extend the term of the Supervisor from its current two years to a four- year term is nothing short of a decision to TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS.
Think about it, would any elected officials voluntarily decide to limit their own powers? If you answer yes, then you have not been paying attention to what is going on around you. The shift of power from the people to power brokers grows every day and the current Town Board is asking you to aid and abet this shift by voting to limit your own Right to Choose. .
The current Supervisor states that the four-year term is necessary for a variety of reasons; she states that she needs the additional two years for the purposes of continuity. She has used as an example the process of procuring grant money in which she claims that the process is time consuming and [...] For those interested in the Healthcare debate I have provided the following links:
This first link is to an article in the New Yorker magazine. The article provides a perspective on the current system through an examination of the medical practices in the town of McAllen TX. McAllen TX has the highest per capita medical expenditures in the USA.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
In this second link Bill Moyers interviews former Cigna VP Wendell Potter. This interview should enlighten anyone who believes that Healthcare is not currently rationed. The interview runs approximately 35 minutes.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
The final link is to a study conducted by the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. The study purportedly demonstrates the benefit of HR 3200 for each individual Congressional District.
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