Reducing waste and excess obviously lowers the total tax burden for a community. We must eliminate waste and incompetence wherever and whenever they occur. And reasonable limits on levy growth make good economic sense and benefit the entire community.

But spending is only part of the story. In fact, even with no increases in tax levies, revaluations will increase taxes for thousands of property owners not a penny of which reaches the town, but is used to pay for the tax reductions for thousands of other taxpayers.

In other words, the outrage expressed by tax payers whose increases might force them to consider selling their homes will be directed at the very unfair tax distribution, where it belongs, instead of the automatic attack on municipal spending as the primary cause of their misery.

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