‘Don't listen to the rhetoric'

To the editor: They say the tax is only on property over $100,000. Just how many homes are there for less? I can’t really think of that many. Mr. Linguanti would gladly pay $1,875 or $4,117 for a transfer tax just for the privilege of being allowed to move into Warwick. Hopefully, he moves in at the beginning of the year so he can start to save money for his $12,000 and $20,000 school taxes that comes in September. I don’t really know that many cops and firemen that can afford that much and we haven’t even talked about the other taxes that come in January and, if in the Village, May. It seems to me that these are the same people who were a part of Community 2000. You remember them. If you don’t they all got together to plan for the growth of Warwick back in the 1990s. The same people who decided that we should annex more property into the Village. That way the builder could build at least twice as many houses on the same piece of property that was in the town. Now we have no green in the Village and the millions that we gave them isn’t enough? Some planning! They started Applefest and invited everyone to come and visit Warwick and see how beautiful it is. Well, they came, they saw and they moved in. If you don’t think that this is going to hurt the seller, then you should look harder. The buyer is going to want the seller to drop the price of his house by the amount of the tax. Don’t listen to the rhetoric. Vote no for the Community Preservation TAX. Paul Shust Warwick