Kate, if Long Island is the highest then Rochester cant be far behind. The same is happening here. Its unimagineable. Even if you have paid for your house in full, the taxes are enough to drive you to the poor house.

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), "Non-Violence in Peace and War"