Reader says Every Ridgewood taxpayer should have their name on a plaque
RHS is funded by high property taxes. I have been paying them for more than 25 years. Is it right that someone who pays $1,000 gets their name on a plaque when others have paid (overpaid) for years.
And correct me if I am wrong, but would these plaque people donate if their name were not going to be posted in a place of prominence? Like Maple Park where folks write cute things about their kids?
Every Ridgewood taxpayer should have their name on a plaque. Some should have their names on multiple plaques just for paying high taxes or for paying taxes without a kid in the system.
The fact that someone actually thought about this, let alone posted it here is pretty comical.
If you believe in the project just donate. I like to read the names of the smug people who think that they are so special. They are paying money to see their names enshrined.
And taxpayer money is also being spent on it. So make sure that the first thank you is to the taxpayers.
“Is it right……” Are you serious? If you want your name on the plaque, write a bleeping check. The library project is something of scale and scope outside the BOE’s operating budget and long over due. I would bet almost everyone who contributed to the project also pays Ridgewood taxes and they aren’t asking for a plaque at GW, Willard, Village Hall, the Library or any of the other facilities in town that have recently been improved with either tax dollars or bond issues. When you ask people for money for something that is over and beyond the norm or a special project you usually acknowledge them in some shape or form. Just take a look at any hospital, museum, college campus, etc…. all those names on buildings, wings, rooms etc….aren’t there by chance.
Maple Park was almost entirely financed by private donations and I don’t know of one person who donated so they could have their name on a brick, stone, or monument. They donated to upgrade and improve an under utilized, poorly maintained park. The results and the current usage of that field speak more for the people that donated to the project than any name on a plaque ever could.
Not surprising.
They are the product of years of:
– Everyone is special
– We should not keep scores in sports
– Everyone gets a trophy
– etc….
All those years of indoctrination eventually have their impact.
I guess that if you are not special, can’t play sports and never got a trophy you can pay $1,000 to get your name on a plaque. Revenge of the nerds.
The fundraiser appeals to the narcissism in some people.