What a crock of crap
If this was the case then we should start looking into privatization of all services to generate a base line for negotiations.“Moving forward, Cheektowaga needs to consider all of its residents and all of their income levels when deciding to do assessments,” she said. “We would hate for Cheektowaga to begin to tax out our lower-income families, which are currently the communities paying the most, the higher percentage right now.”
If this was the case raises would stop including covering all cost increases for health care while the town loses population. It's not like we are paying employees minimum wage. Many are compensated well into 6 figures when you add up the entire compensation package.
"We would hate for Cheektowaga to begin to tax out our lower-income families"
The Cheektowaga Democrats have been doing this for the last 20+ years.