As a New London taxpayer for over 50 years, I am not happy about the most recent tax increase. I am less happy about the way taxpayers are treated; after all, it's our money that pays the bills. To keep raising taxes with no thought of the hardship you place on the taxpayers is wrong. There are so many houses for sale, and if the mayor and the council do not change the direction New London is going, this beautiful city will be no more.

Who benefits from building another high rise? Not the taxpayers. All around us are beautiful senior centers; ours is a disgrace, and so is the police station. We need more police officers to get the drugs and the dealers off the streets so people can start to feel safe.

Collecting taxes should have the same rules, and people should be treated with respect and common sense. We have new people at the wheel; let’s make New London the beautiful city it used to be. 

Jeanette Donohue

New London