Shouldn’t ignore raising gas tax. If we raise gas tax $2.00 per gallon now and dedicate it to oil alternatives, it could prevent us from paying $8.00 per gal in the future to foreign producers. We’d be in better shape if we had done this 30 years ago after the last oil crisis.
While they claim that the students being here means $7 billion for the economy, I think more money goes out to host them in town for an academic year.
Additionally, the property tax base is going down because of college sprawl. Colleges are building non-profit buildings on once residential and business land all over the city.
That activity makes absolutely no sense.
Also, making no sense is other non-profits using once residential homes for their offices --> no taxes!
Furthermore, there has been a large mosque built - no taxes - on land the City of Boston sold to the mosque for $176,000 --> prime land in the City.