Key Goals
- Preserve our greatest strength, the occupational and age diversity of our towns.
- Pressure the state to assume a fair share of school and other town costs.
- Provide property tax credits for all seniors to keep them in their homes.
- Facilitate home mortgages for young families.
- Attract high tech industry to provide new and better jobs.
- Develop realistic alternative energy sources.
- Make energy deregulation work for individuals, not the utility companies
- Enlarge existing programs to encourage automobile efficiency.
- Provide credits for alternative energy sources and energy-efficient appliances.
- Guarantee Positive Growth. Our towns will grow; the challenge is to keep them liveable.
- Encourage inter-town coordination on pure water and open space.
- Provide more low-income and senior housing.
- Respond to the needs of the local business community.
- Emphasize Education. Our towns have good schools; they must be great.
- Build the most highly skilled labor force in the nation.
- Create incentives to attract start-up technologies, keeping our young people here.
- Update our Transportation system to attract new investment.
- Improve rail lines and encourage a shift of freight from trucks to trains.
- Provide inexpensive mini-bus transport from home to shopping center.
- Support car pool use with tax credits.
- Eliminate bottlenecks and complete missing links on our road system.
- Provide Excellent Health Care for all.
- Fund research and development to keep our hospitals at the medical forefront.
- Expand affordable health care coverage.
For more information, contact John McCarthy at (203) 263-6544 or john@friendsofjohnmccarthy.com
