Editor,
Kathy Russell’s “Letter to the Editor” was correct relative to the Biddeford tax rate.
Your headline was correct, but it was certainly bad journalism.
It has become common bureaucratic convolutions for school boards and municipalities to increase their budget request to allow for later reductions.
Later they know that they can report to the media that the tax rate has been reduced from the original projections. They know that the compliant media will dutifully report this, but fail to remind their readers that their taxes have actually increased from the prior year.
Guy Thivierbe
Saco
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