Health & Fitness
Where Does This Lead?
Acton is not immune to the problems facing everyone else: sky-high costs and unfunded obligations. But we have another burden: high property taxes.
Everyone knows that our world, national, state, and town economy is a mess. We've collectively decided that overspending and borrowing is the way to go and we have done so on a grand scale.
In Acton, our taxes are so high that the average homeowner pays about $200 per week just in local property taxes. About two-thirds of our town and school budgets are spent on personnel, so wages and benefits are what is driving Acton's high tax rate.
Our politicians continue to award generous future pay increases and other incentives to our town workers. Often, these decisions are with the blessing of our professional managers....