Joy Schwartz Explains Delco Crisis On Dawn Stensland — Joy Schwartz, one of three Republican candidates for Delaware County (Pa) Council, guested Oct. 18 on The Dawn Stensland’s show.
Joy taught in the William Penn School District before retiring and noted that she is the daughter of immigrant parents. That’s from whence comes her love for America.
The interview was wide-ranging. Joy noted that the arrogant intransigency of the present county administration regarding voting concerns are fueling widespread doubt in our elections.
Delco is appealing right-to-know requests they have lost regarding how it runs elections, for example.
Why would they do that? The obvious reason is the ugliest.
Joy noted that Democrat spending over the last four years is going to give Delco a crushing property tax increase.
“They have been floating bonds our their capital improvement projects,” she said. “In 2023, they borrowed $60 million. If they remain in power, God forbid, they will borrow $70 million next year. And this is at higher interest rates.”
She said that this will require — at minimum — a 30 percent increase in the county real estate tax bill to resolve.
“For some people this may be a drop in the bucket, but in Delaware County we are talking about a lot of townships and municipalities that have very hard-working people in them that don’t make a lot of money,” she said. “A $2,000 increase in their real estate taxes for the county is significant. “Especially when you pile that on top of practically every single school district in the county hiking up their taxes.”
She noted that her hometown of Upper Darby — solidly under Democrat control — is on the brink of bankruptcy.
“When people can’t afford to stay in their homes, and when they start not be able to pay their taxes, and they’re becoming tax delinquent, we are talking about a disaster happening in Delaware County,” she said.
People are hurting in Upper Darby and Lansdowne, she said.
She brought up Council’s hairbrained scheme to spend $49 million per year over 16 years to “fight’ climate change.
“Now I like parks and trails as much as the other person but right now we have serious issues with homelessness, with drugs, with crime on our streets,” she said. “Those are priorities that are just being thrown away.”
If you’re a resident of Upper Darby, Lansdowne or anywhere in Delco that isn’t filthy rich, prepare to suffer if this crowd keeps power.
Vote for Joy, Bill Dennon and Jeff Jones, Nov 7, unless you like misery.
The interview can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moms-for-libertys-joy-schwartz-joins/id1587031294?i=1000631899037
Dawn Stensland can be heard 10 a.m. to noon on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.
Joy Schwartz Explains Delco Crisis On Dawn Stensland
Unfettered property taxes are the means by which all but the most wealthy will be made into renters. Klaus Schwab and his WEFer mob like to say “you will own nothing and be happy”, and exorbitant real estate taxes are part of that. With the outrageous inflation ( the most open of hidden taxes) we are suffering unabated, I can definitely envision the we will own nothing part. As for being happy, that’s another story. It’s not too late yet, but were getting real close to the point of no return.
Stensland, though.
Fixed Brad. Good catch