Monday, December 19, 2005

 

The Shakedown, Part I

Anxiety is presently permeating the lives of the good burghers of Teaneck. Doing its part to maintain the reputation of Northern New Jersey as the highest taxed region in the nation, the local council has decided it's time to reassess every property in the town. Reassessment is when the town decides to "realign our tax base," which is gibberish for "rachet up your annual property tax bill from the merely ruinous to the stratospheric."

This neat feat is accomplished by sending inspectors to every house in the town during the course of the coming year, with the aim of punishing any homeowner foolish enough to have made improvements to their box of ticky-tacky.

(Sorry, it's been a long day, I'm buggered, to be continued tomorrow...)

-LSD

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