How can sumptin like that happen in bucolic Worcester, MA? Easy, when a group of business people, Worcester Citizens for Business, push a tax-them-not us agenda. What happened to community - we're all in in it together. We can't let money come between us. Hey, we're Wusta!
Hey, I thought business folks were schooled in economics? So they want to raise taxes in a recession? With record unemployment, record foreclosures, record city tax lien sales. Only in Wusta folks.
Of all the people who have injected themselves in the controversy, one stands out in particular - trash-talk show host Jordan Levy and WCB's minister of misinformation. But not for his propaganda skills, rather his place in Worcester's history.
1984 was the year that the infamous dual tax rate system was implemented. The year Worcester politicians rammed a wedge between homeowners and businesses, Jordan Levy was in the thick of things, pushing the agenda. Pretty sure in the current debate, Jordan Levy conveniently fails to mention his part in decimating Worcester's economic landscape. Or decimating his own businesses.
As mayor, Jordan Levy, implemented the two highest percentage tax increases in Worcester’s post-1984 history, in 1992, 16.0% / 15.9% and 1993, 22.2% / 20.1% - homeowners, businesses respectively.
So why after all this time, after his 18 years on the city council, all the while bashing businesses and homeowners alike, does the 70-year old Jordan Levy, the self-appointed man of the people, want to drive the wedge even deeper? Does he even remember what he did?
Pretty sure he doesn't - history was never his strong point.
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