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OPINION: Manasquan Ready To Raise Taxes - Will This Finally Drive Us Out?

No-one on the subject of Manasquan's proposed tax increase seems to have remembered those of us who, as Sandy Survivors, have paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes over the past 18 months, with absolutely no return or benefit.

Eager to rebuild as strongly as robust regulations and a huge mortgage would allow, we still struggled over four hundred days before we could so much as drive the first piling. With carrying costs on the vastly more expensive reconstruction of a once-112 year old cottage, we are terrified that the coming tax bill will still succeed in driving us out of Manasquan where our family has lived and loved now for over ninety years. We are still months from any hope of actually occupying our old spot, and already additional hits from the Borough are ready to take us down again.

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