It’s time for 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 in every of 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 every one her spending is on “metropolis providers.”
Proper now, there are not any checks and balances and no transparency. Her funds wants a complete assessment 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 will likely be footing the invoice for all the general public relations stunts, employees and ineffective businesses that Wu has created over the past 4 years.
Wu’s smug method to the funds, saying there are not any potential cuts to be made and taxes have to be elevated on the decimated business property trade as an alternative, 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 by some means going to create a groundswell of assist.
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 dedicated to creating Massachusetts extra reasonably priced and there are lots of methods to offer significant aid—together with proposals from Senators Brownsberger and Collins that may assist essentially the most susceptible residents with out putting burdens on small companies that can ripple all through the state—and the Metropolis ought to have engaged with the Senate on these choices properly prior to now,” a Spilka spokesperson mentioned.
Rep. Adrian Madaro, Home chair of the Joint Committee on Income, mentioned the Senate is “enjoying video games” and Boston’s petition is “rotting away” due to “private points that exist between stakeholders.”
Which may be true however Wu is just not going to win a battle with Spilka except she alters technique and comes with a peace providing – like at the very least an try at chopping her personal bloated funds.
Possibly slash one in every of her speechwriters, or digital staffers? She clearly has loads of these to advertise herself. Or subsequent time take a move on a phony baloney $15,000 journey to Nova Scotia simply so her employees photographer might get a shot of her chopping down the town Christmas tree.
