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daredtowork

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1. Oh Good Grief
Fri Apr 10, 2015, 02:48 PM
Apr 2015

Communities need to start kicking these Big Development "welfare queens" out.

They swoop in, destroy community infrastructure to support local businesses and low income jobs (services, nonprofits),get huge tax breaks which shift tax burdens to the rest of the community, take their huge profits, and leave hulking buildings full of unaffordable empty units (often being used as money laundering "investments&quot and a path of devastation behind them.

If the law isn't clear on what benefits these leeches and conmen owe the communities they exploit, then we damned well better make, clarify, underscore, and shout from their luxury condo rooftops that law.

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