Medina needs to address high taxes or it will keep pushing people, investment out

Editor:

To the Real Medinans, you know who you are.

The ones who have been here the whole time. We’ve watched it progress from great to rock bottom and back to good again.

But still we don’t feel heard. They keep telling us just a little more tax. Go without that happy meal for the kids so the village can have this or that. Yet we never see the improvements.

And next year?

They’re back again, asking us for more sacrifice.

All the while not appearing to sacrifice anything themselves.

They’re pushing us out. Our families were loyal to this town and now a lot of us can’t afford to live here.

My parents started in an upper apartment on East Center across from the Vets. Then we moved to Church Street in a small half house.

I know that feeling well….

That feeling of never being comfortable enough to stop looking over your shoulder because we have no safety net. We only have ourselves.

Electric bill comes, we toss it on the kitchen table. There it sits for weeks because we dread opening it. Same with the gas, or cable, and those taxes every June. Dread.

We’ll open them later….don’t wanna ruin our day.

But still, our leadership pushes on.

Just a little more, make that sacrifice!

And they often rig the system in their favor. The public payrolls sometimes read like a family tree.

Many of us face the fact that our current family generation may be our last in Medina.

Driven away by a disregard for the common people that make this town what it is.

I could have left…but I didn’t.

And what you’ve been hearing from me the last few weeks is my resistance. I’ll be damned if I go down without pushing back.

I’m a Village Boy at heart, still playing on the trestle of Church or in the milk barns off Starr, walking to Meyers for penny candy and pop.

I never forgot where I came from, because I never really left.

To the real Medinans, my people…. Don’t be fooled by a slick, polished, money bought campaign. Vote for “Change” in the eelction.

Give that fiscally responsible group of 3 another voice at the table.

Do it!

And I’m confident that 4th voice will be our voice!

David Sevenski

Medina