bostonherald.com ^ | 05/10/2011 | Howie Carr
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 8:29:19 AM by massmike
How can this be? The value of your home keeps going down, yet the property taxes never stop going up.
Back in 2006, didn’t candidate Deval Patrick promise to cut property taxes? If he does have to testify under oath at Sal DiMasi’s corruption trial next week, I hope someone asks him about that pledge, just to establish his reputation for veracity, or lack thereof.
“Governor, did you know you were lying when you vowed to cut property taxes, or maybe we all misunderstood you, and you really meant to say you were going to cut property values? Which is it?”
It’s that time of year again. Proposition 21⁄2 override season. Saturday they passed one in Scituate. Wherever you go, it’s the same old story. The selectmen say they’ve made “Draconian cuts.” They’re dealing with “fixed costs.”
Fixed costs means they can’t lay off their wife’s nephew.
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