Now, when you lose 20 percent of your ratable base--I was a mayor for 6 years--that is a nightmare because there is no way to make it up except for shifting the responsibility for that community's cost to all of the other ratepayers and/or dramatically cutting the various central services.
Menendez describes the severe impact of losing tax revenue on community services.
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