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From taxes to towing fees, the city of Boston takes its orders from the State House. To compete with New York, Chicago, even Bangalore, Boston needs to call its own shots.
IMAGINE IF BOSTON had only one revenue source: a tax on shopping mall sales. You know what would happen. The city would do everything it could to attract shopping malls in order to pay for schools, police, fire services, and everything else. It wouldn't matter whether the city actually wanted more shopping malls. Shopping malls would have to be encouraged, ... (Full article: 1597 words)
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