It’s time for a very good scrubbing of Mayor Michelle Wu’s reckless, unchecked spending earlier than Boston taxpayers are hit with one other crippling tax hike.
Lawmakers ought to demand an unbiased audit – probably by State Auditor Diana DiZoglio or the feds – of Wu’s ballooning funds earlier than contemplating any extra new taxes or state funds for her administration.
That audit, together with one among all of the federal funds flowing to Boston, ought to demand accountability from the town. Open up all of the books to again up her declare that each one her spending is on “city services.”
Proper now, there aren’t any checks and balances and no transparency. Her funds wants a complete evaluation with recommended cuts, the way in which each personal enterprise does it.
The weak Metropolis Council’s unanimous rubber stamp approval of Wu’s 13% property tax enhance on Wednesday means Boston residents might be footing the invoice for all the general public relations stunts, workers and ineffective companies that Wu has created during the last 4 years.
Wu’s boastful method to the funds, saying there aren’t any attainable cuts to be made and taxes should be elevated on the decimated business property trade as a substitute, is irresponsible. She calls President Trump a “king,” then behaves like a queen.
Wu is now utilizing ridiculous TikTok movies and Reddit threads to strain the state Senate to cave to her calls for, like that’s someway going to create a groundswell of help.
Senate President Karen Spilka, who has feuded publicly with Wu for greater than a 12 months over Wu’s plan to place extra of the tax burden on business property, was clearly not impressed. Wu’s tax plan went nowhere once more this week.
Spilka is supporting tax aid proposals from two Democratic state senators whom Wu has focused for political retribution, Nick Collins and William Brownsberger.
“The Senate is deeply committed to making Massachusetts more affordable and there are many ways to provide meaningful relief—including proposals from Senators Brownsberger and Collins that would support the most vulnerable residents without placing burdens on small businesses that will ripple throughout the state—and the City should have engaged with the Senate on these options well before now,” a Spilka spokesperson mentioned.
Rep. Adrian Madaro, Home chair of the Joint Committee on Income, mentioned the Senate is “playing games” and Boston’s petition is “rotting away” due to “personal issues that exist between stakeholders.”
That could be true however Wu will not be going to win a battle with Spilka except she alters technique and comes with a peace providing – like not less than an try at chopping her personal bloated funds.
Possibly slash one among her speechwriters, or digital staffers? She clearly has loads of these to advertise herself. Or subsequent time take a cross on a phony baloney $15,000 journey to Nova Scotia simply so her workers photographer might get a shot of her chopping down the town Christmas tree.
