Kopel is wrong on refunds

To the Editor:

I have to respectfully disagree with Mr. Howard Kopel (“Legislators talk taxes,” Feb. 17-23). The extra burden Island Park residents may have paid for grievances in the past is peanuts compared to what we’ll be hit with if LIPA successfully challenges the Barrett Power Plant assessment.  

We all live in the Town of Hempstead. We all live in Nassau County. We all benefit by spreading costs over the whole area so that no one neighborhood bears an unreasonable load.  

I look forward with interest to the outcome of the proposed meeting between various officials, but I am very sure that unless they find a way to do what Mr. Kopel denies they should — spread the tax burden over the broadest number of residents — he will find himself a one-term legislator.  

Spreading the burden over years will not cut it. Doling out an unreasonable tax increase over years still amounts to a heavy load, one that will make it hard to keep or sell our homes, to maintain our schools or to run our businesses.  

Karen Fetty

Island Park