Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-14
TO THE EDITOR
Town and School Taxes.

MT EditOF-W hat does meS1i
 printing on the town tax oli ln9
 purposes 6 3-4 mills? When as mat
 ter of fact the state pays S17.o0o or the
 expense of running the schools, ledN
 ing the balance, a mill tax 10 De
 raised by the Town. Do the town or
 fciaIs think they can credit the gen
 erai t.Xper,se account or running the
 town outside of the schools with the
 SIT 900 of state money and nave us
 as taxpayers think we are paying
 more to run the schools and less 70
 run the rest of the town when IL comes to mathematicians, Norwich has
 nothinE. more to be desired and, with q
 business mems association to boost a
 cooperative building association, rree
 trade to knock the high cost Of living
 and as if looks now free soup houses Ill
 the near future Yet in spite Of this
 there are people who think We are not
 making progress, outside of the bull
 moose contingent. There has been a
 good deal said about boosting your
 town. Now, MT. Editor would you call
 the man that is paying "A mill tax on
 his little home a booster. or, is 1t the
 one that is trying to make this poor
 taxpayer think he is paying S4 mill
 tax to run the schools. and only 3-4
 mill tax to run the rest of the town in
 cluding the mill state tax.
 1 suppose it will look fine in the
 town report to ShON lne ptople no" nice and economical the selectmen'S office has been run and how extraV-
 agant the town schools have been run. I tell you MT. Editor when it comes to the pork barrel the United States Congress has got nothing on us, ac- cording 10 the size of the barrel. While we may think times are a lit tie slow in Norwich. when you see a lot of men hoeing the streets in the pouring rain, would 1t indicate things were swift or is it due to shortage of time or the fact of a city election due in little while?
 When I stand on the sidewalk and see the beautiful automobile of the gas and electrical department go by with the contented smile of the gas official therein, it is a sense of satis- facton for me to tell my out of town friends ''yes, l own part of an auto mobile but I prefer to walk myself And now that the city has voted to rent the voting machines, the town can use the income to patch out the general expense account and give the ] town school board the credit of the state money. and if the machine gets 1 stuck Ia Hartford. it is easy for the 1 moderator to tell whether a democrat ! progressive Prohibition or socialist l pulled the lever thereby eliminating any
 chance of any voter losing his vote for ! the one he wants to vote for It is a great age and there don't seem to be 1 much left to be desired by the poor i taxpayer that pays the freight.
 \ POOR TAXPAYER i P. $, If 1t takes only a. 8 3-4 mill tax i to run the town as per advertisement 1 on the town tax bill what becomes | Of the towns share in the liquor li- 1 cense money and how much more does l it cost to run the town schools by con- i solidation then it did under the old | district plan, and when we paid 8 1-2 l mills school tax and 3 mill town tax
 for school purposes outside of the ] state money? If the above information ] could be printed on the trolley trans | fer slips it would be more widely cir l culated. It is said that by advertis- 1 ing you can sell skim milk for cream | and l guess yeu can.
 Norwich, April Is, 1914,