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TO THE EDITOR:
Due to the extremely high property taxes levied on Ocean Grove, some desperate residents have turned to renting out their homes and some are planning to move out of town and even out of state.
The school tax plays a big part in Ocean Grove’s dilemma, being the majority of the tax bill. But the paradox is that an extremely small percentage of residents sent their children to Neptune Township Schools and many residents do not even reside in Ocean Grove during the winter months.
The school tax should be based on the number of students from Ocean Grove and not grouped in with the numberof students from Neptune Township. We have the power to stop this!
From: FAIR IS FAIR, OCEAN GROVE, August 10, 2017
The writer is a resident of OG, but we do not know his/her name.
EDITOR’S NOTE: During a radio interview on July 28, Gov Christie said that “NJ residents deserve blame on property taxes, too.”
Regarding school taxes: “All we want to do is complain about it,” Christie said of school taxes, the largest segment of property tax bills, “but if I go to somebody’s town and say, hell, your property taxes are like this because look at how much your school taxes are … we are going to take the steps that are necessary to do that.”
Christie said the response at that point is typically, ” ‘No, no, no! Not in my town!’ ‘
“The Money Song” from the off-Broadway show Avenue Q (We couldn’t find a song called “Charity Begins at Home.”)