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The gloves are on. We pay taxes in Westchester County, lots of taxes. Now with the economic downturn and house prices falling homeowners are looking at the taxes we pay. Some individuals are looking at the top heavy County goverment and duplication of services that we are receiving from the Federal, State and local governments.
They did vigorously and harmoniously call for the abolition of county government. One man in the crowd even shouted like Peter Finch in “Network”: “We can’t take it anymore!” Others denounced the county government as extravagant, duplicative and riddled with patronage and boondoggles.
The insurgents’ case has been bolstered by recent disclosures that some members of the 17-member County Board of Legislators have spent taxpayer dollars on flights and hotels for conferences in getaways like Hawaii, on whopping cellphone bills and even on software for Hollywood scriptwriting and drawing Japanese cartoons. Mr. Feiner recalled that when he was a legislator two decades ago, the Legislature did not have a single aide; now it has 40, and one earns $150,000.
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