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4 • BABYLON BEACON, O ctober 14,2010 Ï Ê Ï Â I L * - v” ' ■*' « mmmmmmmmmmmw m m DRAWING CONCLUSIONS - b y Kevin Eastwood Thanks to all for a great weekend in Babylon Village It was a great w e ekend in Babylon Village w ith the H o m e c o m ing Parade, gam e and events and the annual Babylon Village C h a m b e r o f C o m m erce Fair an d C o n k lin H o u se Apple and A rts Festival. It provided a w o n d e rful opportunity to “show off” the beautiful Village. C redit goes to all w h o w o rked so hard to m a k e these events so successful— from the officials, Village a n d School employees, security, v o lunteers a n d m e rchants. All have a chance for a little breather before picking u p the w o rk again as we h e a d to the holi days. The Beacon newspaper invites readers to present their views, ideas and issues. Please subm it letters to the editor to us a t 65 Deer Park Ave., Babylon N Y 11702. Letters should be signed and include a daytim e telephone number fo r verification purposes only. We do not accept personal thank you notes, political endorsements or anonymous letters, b ut will, under some circumstances withhold the name o f a writer upon request. R e a d e r s ’ V o i c e s : Letters and Com m entary This country needs another tax. revolt D e ar E d itor: I can understand the frustration expressed by the “Tea Party Movement.” People are beginning to feel like how the Colonialists must have felt during the reign o f the high taxing Redcoats. The only difference being today we have more representation in govern ment with the same over-taxation. As a worker you are lucky to have 50 percent of what you earn read ily available to spend on your family o r other needs. This is largely because the dollars we earn (after the deductions from state and federal taxes) are taxed again when we buy something (sales tax), when we earn income from investments (capital gains tax), are taxed again (when we pay local school and property taxes), this not including special taxes on the cable bill, telephone bills, water bills etc. The maze o f taxes a dollar can be subjected to has transformed itself to a collecting duct for the various government treasuries, local, state, and federal; supporting infrastructure’ we are told, but in essence paving the way for more gov ernance and control o f the taxpayer’s dollars. My contention is that we are now living in a “Tax State.” W hat I mean by this is that by giving so much control o f o u r money over to government, we are los ing control over our lives, and have less real income to spend o u r families. I do n o t think this was the original intention o f our Founding Fathers. On Long Island where the local property and school taxes are especially high, double and triple taxation is even more difficult to swallow. I would suggest a moratorium on spending, freeze all pork projects, and use o u r taxes to pay down m ore o f our debt, u n til we reach a balanced budget. Then let us get seri ous about how we can eliminate the vagaries o f heavy taxation with representation. D an M ariani, M assapequa P a rk Subscribers can p o s t com m ents on letters to the editor a n d a rticles on the Beacon website: www. babylonbeacon. com Cablevision boxing us in D ear E d itor: I am fuming after finding o u t tonight that Cablevi sion has now blocked all signals to any TV set with out a Cablevision Box. How much more money do they want o r need. After buying Digital TV sets and still losing channels, we where told that as long as we have Cablevision, we will get to watch the basic p ro grams on these TV sets without a box. W hen I came home tonight and p u t my set on, I get a blue dialogue screen now informing me that I must purchase or rent a Cableyision box with a card in order to view the stations again. This is unfair and out o f control. How much more money do they need me to pay over and above the $165 per m onth they already get from us? Enough already. Rocco D ionisio Jr, M assapequa Park BEACON NEWSPAPERS Fostogs Paid • Babylon Poll Office, Babylon, NY 11702 (USPS0396-8000) Ccpyrifhn999 CJ PUBLISHERS, INC. “THE PAPER THAT WORKS” A combination o( nswapepera and «Wont covering Babylon, Lindenhunt, Copiague, Masaapequa, AmfyvKt, North Babylon, West Babylon, Wyandanch, Deer Paifc, Dix His, WheaUey Heights, Wad Istip, Brentwood, Brightwatots, Bay Shore, Up, East Hip, Oakdale, SayyWe, E. Patchojue, Pathogue, Bohemia, Holbrook, North Lindenhurst. 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Subscription Rates: By Mail in NY State $25 per year $40 for 2 years Out of State: $35 per year/$60 for 2 years Senior Citizens over 65 Take 10% Discount Paid Subscriptions ate non-refundabie. Copies: !0( within 6 weeks 0 / publication. 75 1 ¡or all others, as amiable. 1 m , t i c w e e k A veteran - whether active duty, retired, National Guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount “up to and including my life.” That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer un derstand that. ..Anonymous
