For county legislature, ‘Dan's the man'

To the editor: Recently Democrat Dan Burke set forth his plan for county government. One of the key proposals involves returning sales tax revenues to county residents. The heart of this plan lies in assigning one quarter percent of sales tax to school budgets. Mr. Burke has worked out some details; the actual plan requires some fine tuning. But his original idea is extremely sound. Here in Orange county we have the extension of a sales tax surcharge and a county surplus. At the same time, every homeowner is being financially squeezed to fund school budgets. Seniors now on fixed incomes must scramble to pay additional school taxes. Parents of school children, who appreciate the cost of education and welcome a good school system, must pay for what are deemed as non-essential services: field trips, sanitary supplies (tissues, etc.), certain extra-curricular activities. Monroe tax payers resent the flow of sales tax revenue out of their community. There are ample outlets and malls generating the revenue for this budget surplus. While the local communities support the infrastructure that makes the revenue producing possible, citizens share in none of the money generated. Dan is honest, a man of community service, hard working. Most of all he hears the legitimate complaints of his fellow citizens, and attempts to resolve them. He is running in the 7th District (Monroe and some environs). Dan’s my man for county legislator. I hope you will come to see he should be our man in Goshen. Anthony Fasano, PhD Monroe