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Originally Posted by Argie's Wife
Voters approve the recommended budgets for towns and schools - when they don't approve the recommended budgets then the town or school district has a default budget. Governing bodies can't spend more money than what was approved by the voters. If the voters approve a $6M budget for a town, then that's what the Selectmen have to work with to manage the town.
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What you say is correct for towns with town meeting, absolutely. So ipso facto tax rate and valuations have nothing at all to do with rising taxes. Politicians spending money causes taxes to rise, sometimes their spending needs to be directly approved by the voters, as in town meeting government. Sometimes politician spending does not need to be approved by the voters as in many cities and the state government.
12-07-2011, 01:27 PM
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