Who Could Possibly be Against Affordable Senior Housing?
Absolutely nobody is against affordable senior housing. As I travel around town, meeting the petition signers to slow down or halt the Gilford Village Knolls 3 project, I’m meeting quite a variety of people. I am meeting them personally for two reasons; I want the signers to know that the promoters of this development are going to make a lot of noise to protect their self serving mission and some of those people are actually encouraging people to tear down the petitions.
I thought that I was going to have to explain that the petition is not against seniors but much to surprise everyone of them clearly gets that point. I have received many emails from people eager to stop the growth of “special” tax free communities. They understand the connection between relieving certain people of taxes and placing that burden onto others. Most are seniors themselves and understand that if this sort of thing were to continue, their taxes will force them out of their homes. Ironically, nearly all of them understand the citizens that make up these communities will have no difficulty supporting all spending proposals at the polls because they will have no responsibility to pay for that spending. This will obviously place even more of a burden on those working families that are left with the bill. Once these communities are established there is absolutely nothing to stop their support of spending for all of time!
