If we start sharing services with bigger towns, it will certainly reduce the property taxes and other expenses that we experience every year. This economic situation is unusual so it will take unusual steps to combat it. Merely saying that our schools are being shortchanged when we have a plethora of municipalities and school districts is not right.This is the right time that our politicians should start pushing for a merger of towns and municipalities across the State so that we can achieve economies of scale in terms of services and reduction of overlapping duties that we have in every town right now.
You know in the start there will be hue and cry and resistance among the town inhabitants and protests and campaigns will be launched to stop this but there is no other way except if they want to raise their taxes and cut spending. Although I do live in a small town and I like that too but I would rather have a merger than pay higher taxes to maintain my lifestyle when the economic reality states that we should all sacrifice for the greater good of the state and our finances.
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