So the battlelines are drawn. It’s Business vs. Consumer in Worcester, MA. To the barricades!Pulled this info off WCB's site. No surprise here, my blogging buddy Bill Randell's businesses - Advantage Benefits Group, ABG Real Estate LLC, ABG Rental Properties, Vangella Real Estate LLC, and Randell Package Store Inc. are on the list. Opps, Beth Proko forgot to add Randell Check Cashing LLC.
The list is unredacted - contains numerous double counts etc. Some businesses I couldn't verify. Padding the books eh Beth Proko?
The 83 businesses (5 from Bill Randell alone) listed here, support the lowest commercial rate. Their goal is to take your money and give you nothing in return. Do note that non-profit's are among the list of businesses who want to increase your taxes. Non-profits - geez...
Did some calcs on that. A $1 increase in residential rates means about $300 more on your tax bill. Adjusted over 4 years, that would mean the average residential tax bill would be about $5,300 in 2015, currently it's $3,162. An increase of about 15% per year. A whopping $93 million dollars will be taken taken out of Worcester's already anemic homeowner's wallets. Over time those numbers will change - lots of variables to factor in.
The question is, if you lower it, will they come? Will businesses invest more? Create jobs? Honestly - no. There's simply no evidence whatsoever that it will work, or for that matter, has ever worked. It's called voodoo economics for a reason.
Lots of anecdotal talk, but no facts. The WRRB won't touch this. The Chamber of Commerce is mum. WCB makes no argument. Business blogger Bill Randell can't formulate an argument. Jordan Levy talks BS. Buchalter, Rushton, O'Brien, Petty, Economou, Germain talk in anecdotes or are mute. Where are the facts? Where is the proof?
So think twice before you buy from them. If all you are to them is just a bank that they can take money from, then I suggest you rethink your relationship with Worcester’s businesses. Show them that money not only talks, but walks.
And think twice about who you vote for. They're selling you a bill of goods they can't deliver.
Worcester Citizens for Business rollcall:
ABG Property Rentals - District 4
ABG Real Estate - District 4
Advantage Benefits - District 4
Banana Joe's - District 1
Barnstorm Cycles -
Baystate Financial Services - District 1
Braley & Wellington Insurance Agency Corp. - District 1
Choose Worcester -
Cutler Management Corp. -
E & E Realty Trust - District 3
F.W. Madigan -
George & Company - District 5
Herbert Berg Florist - District 3
Hoey Tire Co. - District 1
Highland Chiropractic - District 2
Highland Chiropractic - District 2
Jack Woods Insurance - District 1
Joey's Bar & Grill - District 5
Jolin Paving & Excavating - District 2
Malofsky & Schwartz, LLP Attoneys at Law - District 2
Marsh Kemp Insurance - District 1
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives (MBI) -
Mill Street Motors - District 5
Morgan Construction -
North Worcester Business Association -
Osgood Bradley Building Corporation -
Palomar Printing - District 1
Randell Package Store - District 4
Tweed's Pub Restaurant -
Serrato Signs - District 4
Stone & Berg - District 5
Vangella Real Estate - District 4
Webster House Restaurant -
Webster Square Business Association -
Worcester Chamber of Commerce -
Johnsonwebapps - District 1
union street realty llc - District 2
Peterson Subway, INc - District 5
A.L. Purinton Corporation - District 1
Worcester Fitness - District 5
Back To Health Chiropractic - District 1
Spanish Marketing - District 1
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Coes Pond Realty Trust - District 5
Coghlin Electric - District 2
Mirick OConnell - District 2
Bowditch & Dewey - District 2
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- District 4
- District 1
Benoit Reardon Architects - District 1
U.P.C Pub - District 4
Worcester CheckCashers Inc - District 5
Pagano Media - District 2
Liazos Inc - District 2
Liazos Inc. - District 2
Speedway Garage67 - District 1
Ethiopian Dream Center Inc. - District 1
Best Rate Of Climb - District 5
Magellan jets - District 5
taylor rental party plus - District 2
Applied Interactive - District 1
Speedway Garage - District 1
Higgins Armory Museum - District 2
Park Avenue Printers, Inc. d/b/a Park-Print - District 5
Advanced Cleaning & Restoration - District 4
town to town movers - District 2
Creative Cabinets - District 1
Creative Living - District 1
MisManagement Associates - District 4
Properties Commission, Salem Covenant Church - District 1
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Concentric Devices, Inc. - District 2
Carbonneau Shoe Repair - District 3
The Futon Co. - District 4
WICN Public Radio, 90.5 FM - District 2
The Omega Marketing Group - District 3
C&R Tire - District 2
Keating Enterprises, Inc - District 3
McCarthy and Associates - District 1
O'Connell Fire Protection - District 1
Magay & Barron Eye Center - District 2
COW - District 4
WRRB - District 1
The Harr-Motor Company - District 2
Harr Imports, Inc. - District 2
EJR Real Estate Trust - District 2
Automotive Management Inc. - District 2
Ethiopian Dream Center, Inc. - District 1
Bowditch & Dewey, LLP - District 1
