Reduce Spending and Taxes in Lower Merion Township

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No More Tax Hikes!

--> Did you know just since 2002, the Township has raised taxes a startling 48.5\%? Yes thats right, 48.5\%!

--> Did you know that Commissioners are poised to raise your taxes or fees another 16\%-22\% for 2010?

--> Did you know that since 2000, the School District has raised taxes an astronomical 92\%?

--> Did you know that the Township is over $100 million in debt?

--> Did you know that total local debt is $492,775,765 (includes planned Township borrowing for 2010, School District and county debt)?

--> Did you ever think local government would put you a half a billion dollars in debt, and still counting?

--> Did you know that nationwide, 70\% of likely voters now favor a government that offers fewer services and imposes lower taxes than one that provides more services with higher taxes?
(Source: Rasmussen Reports. Americas Best Days. August 26, 2009)

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When does it end? When a majority of Commissioners understand that THERE IS A LIMIT to the amount of taxes you can afford.

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Let your voice be heard and sign the petition below to tell the Commissioners to listen, and:

--> Give you a break! After previous tax increases and raising trash collection fees for 2010 - NO new real estate taxes for 2010

--> Review, identify and authorize only essential spending for 2010 - delay discretionary spending until the economy recovers

--> Impose meaningful limits on the amount of debt Commissioners can impose without a referendum

--> Make government live within its means. Increase 2010 spending at the same 1.5\% level that the Township forecasts 2010 revenue will rise.

--> Reduce the runaway 5.8\% increases in employee salary/wages and compensation to a level in line with what we taxpayers are experiencing (private sector salary/wages and compensation are rising at 0\% - 1.5\%)

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Commissioners, you have a choice - restrain spending or raise taxes. We the undersigned demand that you restrain spending, and not raise taxes for 2010.

1150 Signatures

  • Patricia Hueber
    • Comments
    • I pay extremely high taxes now, if they go up I will have to sell my home.
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Richard N Brown
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • gretchen burke
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • haverford
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Robert Eaddy
    • Comments
    • Reduce Spending and Taxes!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwnye
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Blake Caplan
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Haverford
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Steven Gartenberg
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • amy Cornell
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • barbara Fetherolf
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • John K Barclay
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Donald Soloff
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • G D Wagner
    • Comments
    • Enough already!! Wise up, Grow up, Be responsible!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Penn Valley and Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Charles A. Riale
    • Comments
    • The 9 commissioners in LMT who consistently opose common sense and are deaf to reason are destroying a great community. You will be voted out of office. And let me add the school board is just as destructive.
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Anne Bockol
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Peter Howey
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Richard Bockol
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Irene Boden
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Karen Hinckley
    • Comments
    • В
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Wynnewood
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Mary Pat Otte
    • Comments
    • В
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Harry D. Madonna
    • Comments
    • Bond issues should require taxpayers votes and spending must be redused
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Bonnie Young
    • Comments
    • I can hardly pay my current taxes because of these difficult times,
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Narberth
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Julia Schroeder
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Wynnewood
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • sheila gerson
    • Comments
    • unnessary spending
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • bala cynwyd
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Jame Fuchs
    • Comments
    • Given the steps taken by many businesses, I would have expected LM to have done a better job of adjusting expenditures as incoming revenue appeared to be at risk.
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Bill Ross
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • marci selig smoger
    • Comments
    • If you ran your business the way you are running the Township finance plans, you'd be out of a job or go bankrupt! I think those who vote for unlimited spending, i.e., no caps, should be liable personally for the results, just as you would be in an honestly run business. I wonder how that might change your decisions! Of course, I am assuming that "you" have some business savy!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Laura LaRosa
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • harriet rash
    • Comments
    • our economy does not call for more spending
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • villanova
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • wendy kleiner
    • Comments
    • enough raising of taxes in an unstable economy
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • merion
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • David O'Connell
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Lower Merion
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Karen Aydt
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Scott Schley
    • Comments
    • Times are going to be bad for years. An austerity budget is required!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • David A. Blumenthal
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Penn Valley
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Lauren C Kline
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Bryn Mawr
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Mark Patten
    • Comments
    • No more, please!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Robert Edelstein
    • Comments
    • STOP RAISING TAXES
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Penn Valley
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Bob Guzzardi
    • Comments
    • The Forgotten Taxpayer appreciates Comm. Brown's leadership.
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Ardmore, 19003
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Ed Markus
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Sandy Edelstein
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Penn Valley
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Kevin Kimzey
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Maude Dowd
    • Comments
    • In this hard economic times for everyone why can they not try cutting down on unnecessary expenses and give us a break with the high taxes.
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Bala Cynwyd
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Andrew Kress
    • Comments
    • A Democrat for responsible fiscal policy
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Victoria W. Rosini
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Audrey W. Romasco
    • Comments
    • I especially support actions 2,3 and 5!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Bryn Mawr
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Elizabeth Coles Umstattd
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Villanova
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • CARL & PATRICIA RUMPP
    • Comments
    • Reduce spending to meet revenues until we are out of this down time
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Bernard McNamee
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Ben Breskman
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • nancy trometter
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Scott Adams
    • Comments
    • Listen to your constituents!
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No
  • Mitchell Hollin
    • Town Name (example: Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wynnewood etc)
    • Gladwyne
    • Taxpayer in Lower Merion Township
    • No