DEAR READERS:
"TARGET" WANTS TO COME TO PEEKSKILL. "TARGET" WILL EMPLOY ABOUT 300 PEOPLE. "TARGET" WILL PAY A TON OF MONEY IN PROPERTY TAXES, GENERATE A TON OF MONEY IN OTHER BUSINESS TAXES. "TARGET" WANTS TO LOCATE AT LOUISA STREET IN THE IDUSTRIAL SECTION OF PEEKSKILL RIGHT DOWN FROM THE TRAIN STATION. PEOPLE WILL COME TO PEEKSKILL AND STAY IN PEEKSILL INSTEAD OF TAXING A CAB OR BUS TO THE CORTLANT TOWN CENTER. YET THE FLAT EARTH-NO PROGRESS PEOPLE WISH TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING IN THE NAME OF TRAFFIC. THEY INTIMATE THAT "TARGET", AN EEEEEVIL BOX STORE WOULD NOT BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, YET IN THAT SAME AREA IS INDIAN POINT. TRAINS THAT RUN 24/7 WHEN YOU INCLUDE CARGO TRAINS. A GARBAGE RECYCLYNG CENTER IS ALSO THERE. NONE OF THESE NEIGHBORS STOPPED PEOPLE FROM PAYING UP TO A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THOSE RIVERBEND TOWN HOUSES. STILL, A "TARGET" STORE IS NOT A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR THAT AREA BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC. THE MYOPIC SMALL MINDNESS OF THE OPPOSTION TO THIS PROPOSED ENTERPRISE IS BEYOND COMPRHENSION.THESE SAME ANTI-PROGESS PEOPLE DISPARAGE THE WAGES THAT TARGET PAYS ITS EMPLOYEES, IGNORING THAT FACT THAT THOSE 300 PEOPLE WOULD GLADLY TAKE THOSE JOBS RATHER THAN GOVT. HAND-OUTS. THESE SAME PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THAT AN ENTRY LEVEL JOB SHOULD FURNISH SUFFICENT INCOME TO SUSTAIN A FAMILY, AND BY GOD IF IT DOESN'T THEN NOBODY SHOULD GET THAT JOB, THEY SHOULD STAY ON THE GOVT. DOLE INSTEAD. THESE SAME FLAT-EARTH, ANTI-PROGESS PEOPLE ALSO WISH TO STOP THE BUILDING UP OF THE REST OF THE RIVERFRONT WITH PROPOSED TOWNHOUSES, A MARINA, NUMEROUS SMALL BUSINESS, UPGRADED INFRASTRUTURE, UPGRADEDED PARKING FACILITIES, AND NEW PARKLAND. ALL IN ALL, NEW TAX PAYING AND FEE GENERATING ENTITIES WHERE FEW EXIST NOW. THESE SAME FLAT-EARTH, ANTI-PROGRESS PEOPLE WHO WISH FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY AND PROVIDE ALL SORTS OF SERVICES, WISH TO STOP THESE POTENTIAL INCREASES IN THE TAX BASE, INSTEAD THEY WOULD INCREASE THE TAXES OF AN ALREADY OVERTAXED POPULACE. UNLESS MAYOR TESTA HAS A PRINTING PRESS IN HIS BASEMENT THAT PRINTS MONEY, A COMMUNITY NEEDS TO INCREASE EITHER ITS TAX BASE OR INCREASE TAXES ON ITS CITIZENS TO PAY FOR ALL THOSE GOVERNMENT SERVICES THE PEOPLE OF PEEKSKILL WISH TO HAVE. THIS IS BASIC ECONOMICS 101, A NO BRAINER.
I FOR ONE WOULD RATHER INCREASE THE TAX BASE THAN TAXES. THE FLAT-EARTH PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE IT THE OTHER WAY ARROUND. TO BE AGAINST PROGESS IS TO BE IN FAVOR OF TAX INCREASES. THIS SMELLS LIKE POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE BE DAMNED. THIS OPPOSITION DOES NOT EXIST IN A VACUME. YOU CANNOT SCARE PEOPLE AGAINST PROGRESS AND PROMISE THEM MORE GOVERNMENT SREVICES AT THE SAME TIME. SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE, AND IT WILL BE YOUR WALLET. IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF PEEKSKILL TO GET BEHIND BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS AND STOP THE FLAT-EARTH PEOPLE PEOPLE FROM SCARING PEOPLE FROM THIS NECESSARY GROWTH.
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FOR ALL THOSE WHO WERE AGAINST SEWER DIVERSION FROM YORKTOWN TO PEEKSKILL LIKE I WAS IN A LETTER TO THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS LAST MAY(2005)
(A LETTER THAT PROBABLY COST ME ANY CHANCE OF RUNNINGFOR LOCAL OFFICE
IN YORKTOWN...SEE " I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING" MAY ARCHIVE 2005). YOU WILL BE HAPPY TOP KNOW THAT THAT DIVERSION WILL NOT HAPPEN.
KUDOS TO MAYOR TESTA WHO LEAD THE PEEKSKILL COUNCIL IN THAT FIGHT, AND TO COUNTY LEGISLATOR OROS WHO RISKED POLITICAL DEFEAT BY SIDING AGAINST DIVERSION. GOOD JOB BY ONE AND ALL.
BAZZO 02/07/06
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