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The Tuckahoe School Board presented a bleak financial future last Thursday night, November 29, to an audience of elected officials and taxpayers.
The district’s budget projections were sobering: Without piercing the 2-percent New York State tax levy cap in the 2013-14 school year, the district could reach a $1 million budget deficit, one that would only grow in subsequent years.
Officials outlined the district’s efforts to maintain programs while keeping up with unfunded state mandates, high tuition rates for matriculating students, soaring employee benefits costs, and decreasing assessed property values. Those issues have pushed the board toward a merger feasibility study with the Southampton School District, as well as consideration of an exclusivity deal to send high school students only to Southampton High School next year, rather than letting students choose between... more
The district’s budget projections were sobering: Without piercing the 2-percent New York State tax levy cap in the 2013-14 school year, the district could reach a $1 million budget deficit, one that would only grow in subsequent years.
Officials outlined the district’s efforts to maintain programs while keeping up with unfunded state mandates, high tuition rates for matriculating students, soaring employee benefits costs, and decreasing assessed property values. Those issues have pushed the board toward a merger feasibility study with the Southampton School District, as well as consideration of an exclusivity deal to send high school students only to Southampton High School next year, rather than letting students choose between... more
'nuff said.
Are you waiting for someone to rescue you?
Oil Subsidies.
Giving oil companies taxpayer money when they're making record profits.
there's one.
Independent-isn't that what all republicans are calling themselves these days?
Nope, just the ones who have misplaced their principles.
As I recall, some pay even pay ZERO and get subsidies on top of that.
Those who have the gold, have conveniently written the rules. Bastiat was right as rain when he penned that phrase about plunder. We now have a society which glorifies it.
The average effective tax rate after loopholes and deductions was 18% by the most recent study. So, keep blathering and b******* about the "highest tax rate in the world", which almost ...more never gets paid in full. It's actually rather entertaining.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
~ Samuel Adams
Let's just get wasty pants.
~ Snooki
It seems it is too much for chief to educate himself. We simply must hold him by his hand so he knows what we are talking about.
"I'll believe corporations are people, when Texas starts executing corporations."
~ Robert Reich
of what has effected our schools and in my opinion, increasing the density
for Suffolk County was accomplished by the OPEN DOOR POLICY we have
of welcoming everybody-- including those who have broken our laws and
have received entitlements and have placed a burden on our taxpaying
citizens! When will our citizens realize that they have been taken advantage
of by the "special interest groups"??? We ...more have tried to present our
concerns to our leadership, however, we have been shown the closed
door on this subject of enforcement of the law!!! The schools should require
residency requirements as follows: The First Child is accepted, the next
and all future children YOU pay full amount if you are not a citizen of
Suffolk County. I believe this is fair to the taxpaying citizens!!!
If so, congrats to all the newly arrived homeowners from south of the border. If not, there's the root of the problem.
The whole system is upside down. The system worked when a family paying taxes on a house sent a couple of kids to school, some families were bigger, but the average was 2 or 3 kids. Now , in Tuckahoe particularly, there are houses with 2 of 3 families ...more sending 2, 3, or 4 kids EACH to school. The tax base has remained the same but the number of students has exploded.
The liberals here will decrie this fact as somehow racist in nature, nothing can be farther from the truth.
...woulod anybody take this dare : I DARE ANYONE TO GO TO THAT MOTEL on North Road in the morning to see how many kids get onto the TWO BUses that pick them up. and watch the cars drive up !!!
..there ya go, two examples.
..it was so very sad to see them essentially abandoned in th yard of 5 Underhill until their parents or guardians or, HA 'cousins' would eventually drive over to pick them up and take them home.
... poor reflection on the police and child services. but surely the school must have seen too many 5 Underhill addresses associated with these poor ...more children, right ??
.. i mena if the police can point to the school and the school can point to the police and the police can point to child services ..its a hoorible game of "its not my job" .. emabrrasing.
..
congratulations if you helped clear this up and basically fight for the rights of the kids.
Regards,
Bizworldusa
When President Obama needed a business executive to come to his campaign defense, Jim Sinegal was there. The Costco COSTO co-founder, director and former CEO even made a prime-time speech at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte. So what a surprise this week to see that Mr. Sinegal and the rest of the Costco board voted to give themselves a special dividend to ...more avoid Mr. Obama's looming tax increase. Is this what the President means by "tax fairness"?
Specifically, the giant retailer announced Wednesday that the company will pay a special dividend of $7 a share this month. That's a $3 billion Christmas gift for shareholders that will let them be taxed at the current dividend rate of 15%, rather than next year's rate of up to 43.4% -- an increase to 39.6% as the Bush-era rates expire plus another 3.8% from the new ObamaCare surchar
Costco covers it's employees with health insurance.
I was just watching The Ed Show and Ed had on someone who wrote about the Costco business model. What amazed him was when he asked co-founder Jim Sinegal why he treats his employees he expected him to say something about his father coming from a working class background or his Catholic upbringing but instead he said it made good business sense.
The author also said that Costco employees end up working for them on average ...more 17 years and after 4 years they are making $20 an hour' about the same as an assistant manager at Walmart/Sam's.
COSTCO CODE OF CONDUCT
They also have something many other companies don't have-
Ethics.
VENDOR CODE OF CONDUCT
I. PURPOSE.
Costco Wholesale Corporation is committed to protecting the working rights and safety of the people who produce the merchandise it sells, while recognizing and respecting the cultural and legal differences found throughout the world. To these ends, Costco:
1 prohibits illegal child labor, compulsory prison or slave labor and physical abuse of
workers;
2 expects its vendors to comply, at a minimum, with the applicable labor and environmental laws and regulations of the country where the merchandise is produced; and
3 encourages its vendors to work to achieve ��Above and Beyond Goals.��
Through this approach, Costco believes that practical and realistic protections and improvements for workers will occur. Costco��s Vendor Code of Conduct applies to all Vendors who provide merchandise to Costco. Costco will seek to identify and utilize Vendors who share our commitment and reserves the right to conduct, or have conducted on our behalf, audits of production facilities and business practices in order to monitor such Vendors�� commitment. Costco reserves the right to cease doing business with any Vendor who does not share our commitment. This Vendor Code of Conduct may be amended by Costco; its enforcement and/or interpretation rests solely with Costco; and it does not confer or create any rights in favor of any party other than Costco.
From the Huffington Post
Source: Sen.-Elect Warren Tapped For Banking Committee
WASHINGTON -- Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It's a victory for progressives who battled ...more to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations.