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Why everyone loses under the city’s new property tax plan

Renters and owners, city slickers and suburbanites: none are spared in the effort to shift wealth from poor to rich—not even the rich themselves. The good news? City council can still stop it.

by Tim Bousquet

One day last week I drove out to the Kingswood subdivision off Hammonds Plains Road, just beyond Bedford. Kingswood is the epitome of suburban sprawl; thousands of ritzy houses, some of them worth a million dollars or more, are plucked down on…

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Why everyone loses under the city’s new property tax plan

Renters and owners, city slickers and suburbanites: none are spared in the effort to shift wealth from poor to rich—not even the rich themselves. The good news? City council can still stop it.

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