The Brunswick School Department and School Board have an insatiable appetite for Brunswick taxpayer money. Now they want to increase the tax rate by nearly 10%, which will largely go to wage and benefit increases, according to Superintendent Phil Potenziano.

Wage and benefit increases seem to be the mantra of Brunswick town government. But how many hourly workers in this town ever get regular wage increases? So many families are struggling with high and ever-increasing costs of every necessity: food, shelter and utilities. Their children are certainly affected by these hardships.

Superintendent Potenziano urged Brunswick citizens to “look beyond their tax bills to the benefits the asylum-seekers could bring to town” (as paraphrased by the reporter). But he did not explain what those benefits might be.

Surely asylum seekers will not be able to afford to buy property in Brunswick and, therefore, will not be contributing to the property taxes. Having asylum seekers here is “a privilege,” according to Potenziano. I doubt that many taxpayers will see it that way.

Jeanne Johnson
Brunswick

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