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http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/10/29/boston-annex-brookline-cambridge-somerville/
We have too long allowed the residents of the inner suburbs: Brookline, Somerville, Cambridge, Milton, and Quincy, among others, to reap the benefits of our city without sharing any of the cost. They benefit from all the city has to offer from jobs to culture without paying for any of it. Their taxes go to funding their own community and it hurts the tax base of the city on which they rely. This ends up prolonging regional inequality, the rich areas separated from the poor, because the quality of school systems in the burbs will increase much more quickly than that of the BPS. It is time to bring in our rich neighbors who rely on our city, and force them to pay their fair share of its maintenance.
We have too long allowed the residents of the inner suburbs: Brookline, Somerville, Cambridge, Milton, and Quincy, among others, to reap the benefits of our city without sharing any of the cost. They benefit from all the city has to offer from jobs to culture without paying for any of it. Their taxes go to funding their own community and it hurts the tax base of the city on which they rely. This ends up prolonging regional inequality, the rich areas separated from the poor, because the quality of school systems in the burbs will increase much more quickly than that of the BPS. It is time to bring in our rich neighbors who rely on our city, and force them to pay their fair share of its maintenance.