Cape Cod Commission: "No Taxation Without Representation!"

As a registered voter and activist member of our regional community, I am writing for two purposes.

First, I would like to strongly urge all voters of the fifteen respective municipalities which comprise Barnstable County to sign the petition for their particular town which seeks to place a question onto the local ballot asking if the voters think that their town should withdraw from the Cape Cod Commission.

It is time to "come in out of the rain." The Cape Cod Commission and the various annual budgetary contributions extorted from each of the Cape towns for its yearly fiscal upkeep, support, and maintenance, continually places an unjustifiably heavy tax burden upon all of our residents!

The Commission incessantly grows and expands both financially and politically. Please send a clear message to our political leaders, and Commission bureaucrats, that this must stop. Most people have to live within a budget and within their means. The CCC must begin to do the same as well. It must halt its wasteful, abusive, and spendthrift ways with taxpayer dollars.

For your own economic survival please remember this warning, the only alternative to tax limitation, is unlimited taxes!

Furthermore, the process for selecting the respective town representatives to the Cape Cod Commission must be dramatically changed. Either the CCC representatives must be directly elected by the voters (not appointed by government officials like they are now), or the fifteen towns of Cape Cod should withdraw from the Cape Cod Commission, and thereby dismantle the CCC for the good of us all.

By inserting the taxpayers and voters directly into the political arena, we send an unmistakable message to the politicians and bureaucrats that we expect the Cape Cod Commission to respond not to their needs, but to ours -- and what we need is better management of the dollars we choose to pay.

The time has come for all good citizens to come to the aid of their commonwealth, and put this question onto the ballot for the voters to decide.

As our Yankee forefathers put it, "No taxation without representation!" That will become our rallying cry too. For further info about the Cape-wide petition drive, people may contact its organizers: Lou Gonzaga at: (508) 815-9994, or me at: (508) 362-2043.

Ron Beaty