What’s Next, Soylent Green?
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- December
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Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner has come up with his nuttiest idea yet.
He wants to push through a local law that would offer cash-strapped, senior-citizen homeowners a unique way to work off their onerous property-tax debt. It’s simple. All they have to do is perform menial municipal jobs on a “voluntary” basis.
In other words, the oldsters can either lose their homes because of tax delinquency or become slaves of government. There’s really noting voluntary about it. Wonderful. These poor souls probably hate retirement anyway, right?
Under the Feiner plan, the elderly cadre can clerk in the library, coach, tutor students, work as receptionists, etc. Feiner wants to offer the program to as many as 25 seniors and expand it to more in the future, if it all works out.I have an alternative idea—Cut taxes.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Quote:menial municipal jobs.You better watch out fill um Phil.In the future they may deem any newspaper veterans as Feiner worthy.You can expect to see Reisman Rascals in your cubicle soon.