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Thank you Mr. Testa for finally pulling the covers off to expose the fraud that was our Mayor. I am surprised that the Beacon would even print these statistics. How is it that this is the first time this is being "reported". I have been saying this to anyone who would listen for years. Mr. Mayor had the whole city analyzing every penny on the school department budget, while he has been stealing every additional tax dollar for the city side of the budget for years. Nothing to look at over here, just worry about the school spending. Meanwhile he continued his reckless spending, and made no progress on reducing the unfunded liabilities in the pension plans. The numbers stated above are just the beginning of it the additional revenues he has squandered. We have twice as many hotel rooms since he took office, where did all the additional room tax revenue go. How about the PILOT money we started receiving for the airport. Then there is the new 8% sales tax on restaurant meals of which the city gets 1%, there are a lot of restaurants in Warwick. All the new homes in Seventeen Farms, office space in Metro Center and behind Crown Plaza, just to name a few of the new properties added to the tax rolls, These are just a few of the additional sources of revenue the Mayor was squandering on top of his annual property tax increase. Then we are supposed to thank him for the one time in his career he submits a budget without a tax increase. I have one question for Mr. Mayors supporters, name me one thing that is better in this city today than when he took office, schools, infrastructure, parks, public safety............, he must have one accomplishment over the last twenty years. That is quite a record to run on.