Letter to the Editor: How Can I Get You to Vote "Yes"?

To the editor:

I see all the “No (to liquor)” signs around town and I really feel these individuals just don’t understand.

Do you all remember when “Made in America” was something you looked for and purchased over the imported products? Then year after year it became harder and harder to be a U.S. manufacturer and within a few years this country became China-dependent. So what?

Well, Moorestown residents have enjoyed year after year of great services and nice things like lights on most sports fields, and a great school system. And now, like U.S. manufacturing, a large player within the Moorestown tax structure is starting to dwindle. Before you know it, Moorestown will be forced to raise their taxes on residents because their corporate tax income has disappeared. You won’t know until it is too late and your taxes either go up 20 to 30 percent or the services we take for granted go down 20 to 30 percent. Do you want to be like Riverton? I left Riverton and came to Moorestown because I was paying high taxes and receiving little in return. I purchased a bigger house in Moorestown and my property taxes went down. And look at what Moorestown offers.

Look around you: The business around the Moorestown Mall, Centerton Square, Hartford Corner Shopping Center, the Acme shopping center and the Iron Hill Brewery area are all carefully planted outside of Moorestown, all competing for your business, just like China competing against the U.S.A. products. This is tax revenue. This is also pulling retail out of Moorestown and it surely is making it more difficult to do business in Moorestown.

Vote “Yes.” Look, we all love our town and we all love the way things are. We have good people managing this town and they don’t want it to go downhill. They live here too. They also look at numbers and deal with issues none of us deal with. They feel this is a good thing for Moorestown and I think they are right because I like having excellent schools, a well-maintained Main Street, and a place I can be proud of. We are a well-planned town and we need the tax revenue, which the corporate part of Moorestown supplies, to accomplish what we all want.

Don’t be quick or emotional about this decision. Think about what the town is trying to accomplish. They are trying to accomplish what you ideally want. So don’t get in their way by voting no. Vote yes.

Mark C. Schneider
Moorestown

Moved to Moorestown when I was 5, grew up here and graduated in 1978. Returned in 1995. Moved my business (Albion Engineering Company) here in 2005.

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