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Boo Wu – Boston Sitting on a Billion Dollar Commercial Real Estate Tax Bomb – HotAir

Blue cities sure love their taxes, and they collect them like Daffy Duck clambering up the side of the pile of gold in Aladdin’s Cave, screaming ‘MINE, MINE, MINE!‘ 





What’s yours is theirs, theirs, theirs

And they tax it all – everything they can – even if you’re only there for an outing. God forbid you actually own property or live in a city like, say, Michelle Wu’s Boston.

Beege ADDS: I’d just like to encourage everyone to take a close look at the taxes on this receipt.They are all the same taxes for the same day, which is confusing until you do a little detective work and the #mathz. After the first raft of taxes there is a $35 ‘Urban Fee’ added to the bill…which is then taxed separately by those same entities.

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