Reply To: East Ramapo budget should be voted down

ersd, some people fear the Orthodox moving into their area because they allegedly dont want to support public education, other people fear blacks or Hispanics moving into their area because allegedly they bring crime and other people fear Muslims moving into their area because allegedly they bring terrorism. Lots of people have all sorts of prejudices.

But guess what? None of them can stop the Orthodox, blacks, Hispanics or Muslims from moving into their area. There are laws against that. And that’s why there’s a US Department of Justice that stops that when a town tries to pull that off. It happened right here in Rockland County just a couple decades ago when Airmont was successfully sued and stopped by the USDOJ for trying to keep the Orthodox away. Today Airmont has a huge Orthodox population.

So despite what baselessly “seems to you”, it simply ain’t so. Desiring a low tax rate is a fairly universal objective of many people from many different ethnic background.