Mayor Michelle Wu can lower down a Christmas tree however can’t lower her personal funds.
Now she expects state lawmakers to broom via her controversial plan to boost industrial tax charges to keep away from an enormous residential tax hike?
Wu, whose wage will soar to $250,000 subsequent 12 months, clearly has been emboldened by her uncontested re-election victory final month, and indicators are beginning to emerge about what her second four-year time period will appear to be.
It’s not good for hard-working Boston taxpayers. Tax extra and spend extra. If you happen to’re anticipating something completely different, it’s not going to occur.
The least clear mayor in latest historical past held an “embargoed” press convention (how is that even attainable?) to assert she’ll have to boost property taxes on owners a whopping 13% – a median of $780 a 12 months – until the state Senate passes her proposal to shift the tax hike to industrial property.
“Because it’s an average, many property owners will end up paying even more than that,” Wu stated on the Tuesday press briefing. “It will be difficult to bear for far too many of our residents, and we need to do something about it.”
The weak-kneed media after all went together with Wu’s request to carry again her feedback a day, however lawmakers are unlikely to go together with this plan irrespective of how lengthy Wu holds them hostage.
She additionally used her invisible presser to as soon as once more lash out at Boston state Sen. Nick Collins for toppling her tax plan and demand there’s not a single merchandise or ineffective metropolis company to chop.
Now the phrase out of Metropolis Corridor is that one of many mayor’s neighborhood providers aides is contemplating operating in opposition to Collins – a typical Wu maneuver to get revenge on her enemies.
She ought to ask herself: Is that this the precise time for an enormous tax improve? It can impression not simply owners however renters who should pay when landlords hike up their lease.
However as a substitute of asking that, Wu is plowing forward with a 4% improve within the metropolis funds whereas not focusing on any of her woke initiatives.
Did she look anyplace to chop the funds?
Can she justify each little company within the metropolis authorities?
Wu claims to signify the typical working particular person and has been amongst these slamming President Donald Trump for holding again meals advantages.
However you possibly can’t on one hand say folks can’t get meals, push for lease management, and SNAP advantages after which flip round and lift their taxes by a whole lot of {dollars} a 12 months.
Her political rhetoric doesn’t match the fact.
The Metropolis Council will rapidly comply with Wu’s tax plan, and there might be solely minimal dissent.
“The city of Boston should not be raising taxes,” Councilor Ed Flynn stated. “To date, we have not demonstrated fiscal discipline and transparency that’s necessary as we move forward during these challenging economic times in our city and nation.”
Wu can’t even come clear on the Christmas tree, initially pegging the price of bringing her household and aides – together with the mayoral photographer – at $5,000. The mayor’s press workplace lastly launched figures displaying the journey really price almost 3 times that.
The journey was utterly superfluous and solely designed to showcase Wu to Canada and a nationwide viewers.
She did handle to launch on time a batch of images displaying her chopping down – that’s, killing – the tree.
However what else is she hiding?
