What happened to our taxes and all of our State Aid Money over the past 3 years? 

     Year after year, the Democrats continue to do nothing but raise taxes.  While their smoke and mirrors tactic of continuing to blame the prior administration, our tax increases are going to their political contributors who, in turn, fund their campaign coffers.

     Think about this for a minute.  Even if there were an unpaid bill situation of $1.4 million, that number was only 10% of our town's operating budget - only 10% !!!!  Knowing that it is not all that unusual for any town to over-exceed its annual budget due to a variety of circumstances, a mere 10% of a budget is extremely manageable.  Again if true, it could have been handled in similar fashion to how we dealt with the costs incurred during the never-ending snowstorms of 1996-97, and the havoc wreaked upon us by Hurricane Floyd.  Having now seen that their claims have been proven false, the Democrats own fiscal chaos could have been handled responsibly if not for their political agenda.  The Democrats could have placed the interests of our taxpayers above their self-serving political interests and those of their County Boss by resorting to simply blaming everything and anything on the “prior administration”.  While you hold on to these thoughts, bring to mind that our town received $1.7 million dollars over the past 3 years.  Simple math clearly shows that the "extra" $300,000 should have reduced our taxes.

     Now, with this in mind, why then has our budget exploded from $13 million in 2004 to a whopping $18 million in 2007? Why have our taxes skyrocketed an outrageous 50% in the last 3 years alone?

     Even the Democrats credit the prior administration for holding the line on taxes from 1989-2003.  Up until 2003, Dumont's taxes were among the lowest in the entire County with programs and services that were second to none.

     Take a good look at the following 2007 tax analysis chart (Source: Bergen Record) comparing all Bergen County's towns.  See for yourself what the Democrats have done to us in just 3 short years.

 Can we afford any more of this ???

2007 TAX ANALYSIS				2006-2007 TAX INCREASE %
TOWN	AVERAGE TAX			TOWN	% INCREASE
Alpine	11,708			Rockleigh	27.50
Tenafly	11,587			Montvale	22.80
Haworth	11,529			Closter	18.30
Upper Saddle River	11,505			South Hackensack	13.80
Franklin Lakes	11,345			Rutherford	11.60
Allendale	11,165			Lyndhurst	11.40
Woodcliff Lake	11,058			Carlstadt	10.30
Saddle River	10,936			Hasbrouck Heights	10.00
Glen Rock	10,930			Fair Lawn	9.90
Rockleigh	10,920			Wyckoff	9.80
Ridgewood	10,680			Wood-Ridge	9.60
Demarest	10,640			Rochelle Park	9.30
Harrington Park	10,534			Dumont	9.30
Closter	10,425			Waldwick	8.70
Oradell	10,081			Allendale	8.70
Old Tappan	10,049			Little Ferry	8.40
River Vale	9,589			Wallington	8.30
Ho-Ho-Kus	9,540			River Edge	8.30
Wyckoff	9,413			Hillsdale	8.20
River Edge	8,899			East Rutherford	8.00
Leonia	8,690			Oakland	8.00
Norwood	8,690			Garfield	7.90
Ramsey	8,622			Lodi	7.80
Hillsdale	8,550			Tenafly	7.80
Montvale	8,399			Fort Lee	7.70
Teaneck	8,320			Woodcliff Lake	7.70
Emerson	8,078			Elmwood Park	7.60
Oakland	8,016			Harrington Park	7.50
Cresskill	7,996			Hackensack	7.40
Bergenfield	7,939			Ho-Ho-Kus	7.30
Midland Park	7,933			Alpine	7.30
Lodi	7,931			Edgewater	7.10
Dumont	7,914			Cliffside Park	7.00
Waldwick	7,874			Maywood	7.00
Washington	7,852			Washington	7.00
Rutherford	7,832			Oradell	6.70
Park Ridge	7,730			Fairview	6.60
Westwood	7,533			Moonachie	6.50
New Milford	7,499			Englewood Cliffs	6.50
Ridgefield Park	7,431			Bergenfield	6.50
Hasbrouck Heights	7,410			Teaneck	6.40
Northvale	7,401			Mahwah	6.30
Fair Lawn	7,397			Saddle Brook	6.30
Englewood Cliffs	6,881			Midland Park	6.10
Fort Lee	6,673			Paramus	6.00
Maywood	6,670			River Vale	6.00
Little Ferry	6,638			Park Ridge	5.90
Fairview	6,552			Palisades Park	5.80
Cliffside Park	6,543			Ramsey	5.70
South Hackensack	6,522			Saddle River	5.70
Englewood	6,475			Glen Rock	5.60
Palisades Park	6,379			Norwood	5.40
North Arlington	6,377			Franklin Lakes	5.40
Bogota	6,375			New Milford	5.30
Paramus	6,355			Ridgewood	5.10
Elmwood Park	6,054			Ridgefield Park	5.00
Wood-Ridge	5,983			Old Tappan	5.00
Wallington	5,862			Cresskill	4.80
Hackensack	5,721			Westwood	4.70
Ridgefield	5,566			Northvale	4.50
Lyndhurst	5,516			Upper Saddle River	4.20
Garfield	5,491			Emerson	4.10
Saddle Brook	5,451			Leonia	4.00
Edgewater	5,342			Haworth	3.80
Rochelle Park	5,265			Englewood	3.60
Mahwah	5,200			Bogota	3.50
Moonachie	5,141			North Arlington	3.30
Carlstadt	4,301			Demarest	3.10
East Rutherford	3,650			Ridgefield	1.70
Teterboro	1,496			Teterboro	1.00