Greenway bill has tax group seeing red
A bill that would keep public money flowing to the embattled nonprofit Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is up for a hearing today on Beacon Hill and has taxpayer activists incensed.Apparently the folks "running" the Conservancy are equating "non-profit" with "hemorrhaging money to our cousins and other relations". $5.5 million dollars a year to manage a 15 acre bundle of land? Seriously? Even with the director's ludicrous $185K a year salary, that's $5.3 million dollars a year to maintain an area roughly 1/10th the size of a small golf course. Even buying brand new equipment every year - including a truck and trailer to haul it in - it's hard to see how they'd be spending a fraction of that money.
“This is wrong in so many ways,” said Citizens for Limited Taxation Executive Director Barbara Anderson about House Bill 1803. “The state doesn’t know how it’s going to find the money to maintain its roads and bridges, or pay for peoples’ pensions, but they are going to spend all that money on this little park. None of it makes any sense.”
The comments hit the nail on the head. The two representatives who sponsored the bill to continue this drain on the state's finances should be voted out in November, but I'd bet $100 neither will be. Petrucelli's the brain trust who wants all guns in MA to have GPS transponders embedded in them as his one brilliant idea, and yet continues to enjoy re-election. Michlewitz has a long list of co-sponsored bills, but nothing he's proposed.
They've found their one cause célèbre, and it's got the Kennedy name attached to it, so they'll probably get it.
That is all.
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The RKG does nothing- absolutely nothing- for Boston. I'd rather see my tax $$$ go toward public lands like the Wildlife Management Areas and state forests throughout MA than what amounts to little more than strips of grass in Boston. Not much beyond my hunting licenses/hunter ed fees go toward maintaining the WMAs and state forests, which actually see real use.
They've found their one cause célèbre, and it's got the Kennedy name attached to it, so they'll probably get it.
True that. Speaking of Kennedy's not that I mean any ill will, but since Patrick Schwarzenegger had a ski injury in Idaho (his Dad had one there too) perhaps he should follow the "Kennedy legacy" and try skiing in Aspen Colorado.
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