This is in regards to the recent article that our new mayor is requesting money to purchase a new tar machine to patch holes. I was under the impression that we already had a tar machine for filling in holes that I don’t believe has been used, and if it has, it wasn’t that often. We spent a lot of money on this tar machine that we just had to have. It seems our new mayor is continuing our old mayor’s way of wasting money on equipment that is never used. Why don’t you use the one we already have instead of wasting our money? It’s bad enough we had to pay for legal fees, now you want us to spend money on this crap. As The Westfield News reported last year, the asphalt machine the city of Westfield currently has was not operational until repairs were conducted. The new machine is completely different as reported here in August 2015: https://thewestfieldnews.com/new-pothole-fix-technology
Having heard statements from Bernie Sanders that I like and some I did not understand, I sent a letter to his office requesting clarification on one issue, his 1 percent elite statements. I received a call from a nice gentleman that explained it is a 1/2 cent tax on every wall street transaction (which is billions of dollars a year). This would include anyone that has funds in the marketplace, including wealthy individuals, large funds used by ordinary folks, and of course all retirement funds both individual and funds such as Vanguard. Well I’m certainly not a “1 Percenter” and have no retirement funds outside of my savings and wall street investments. And knowing the wall street funds it’s clearly unrealistic to believe that the fund managers and brokers are going to absorb this tax personally, they are simply going to pass it on to us consumers as a fee. As they say, the devil is always in the details and Bernie looks like another politician that wants to take my retirement money and give it to someone who has not earned it. Too bad!
