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IAM thinKin shold bee BISCYCLE LICENS mit der BIG FaTT fEE. paying for VIZUAL ISORE of sPenDEx NUTTHUGGERS und big FLOWIN AZZESS.
 
The aB awards needs a new category: Best bostonbred post of the year.
 
During my wanderings (mostly in Southie) I have noticed several smallish projects being built, but I can't find them on the BRA's Development Project list. My question is; Does the BRA review all projects in Boston? If not, what determins what they review (size, location, type, cost, or politics)? I can understand a single family house not being reviewed by the BRA, but a 9 unit condo building. Or do we have a bunch of rough Irish builders running amuck?
 
czsz said:
Economist ranks Boston the 10th most competitive city in the world, ahead of Frankfurt, Toronto, and San Francisco
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That's what years of those horrible socialist liberals will get you! Can't wait for the Herald editorial response.
 
underground said:
That's what years of those horrible socialist liberals will get you! Can't wait for the Herald editorial response.
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The Herald will just admit Mass. liberals are reasonable compared to "true socialism" in Canada and Germany and whatever it is they call the system that makes them hate SF, then express fears that current pols are "taking us down that road," as they have for decades.

No idea how they make that work with cities near the top of the list like New York and Paris though.
 
datadyne007 said:
If the government cared about infrastructure (Obama actually does but the Republicants constantly shoot his proposals down) we would have Flexity Boston trains. Germany invests so heavily in public transit and green initiatives. The government even built a PLUS (not net-zero) energy house and gave it to a family to live for 15 months in free to study green building.
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But then again, Germany has a higher tax rate for funding infrastructure improvements. Here in the US, we don't want taxes to be raised unless that tax money goes straight to building a private railway from one's front lawn to one's office.
 
KentXie said:
But then again, Germany has a higher tax rate for funding infrastructure improvements. Here in the US, we don't want taxes to be raised unless that tax money goes straight to building a private railway from one's front lawn to one's office.
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Yup and the sales tax is 19%... and no one complains.

There is nothing wrong with taxes. No one in the US wants to pay for what they expect. That's the problem.
 
Smart Germans shop in Andorra or Lichtenstein to avoid the VAT or get everything declared as used or a gift in the post. =)

datadyne007 said:
There is nothing wrong with taxes. No one in the US wants to pay for what they expect. That's the problem.
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We already pay too much and don't get what we expect. I expect to pay taxes for essential infrastructure, services, and safety not to provide the entire extended family of miscellaneous hackery a fat paycheck and pension for a do nothing job.

The US doesn't have a revenue problem it has a spending problem. What we are spending IS NOT being effectively spent on productive endeavors. The 'stimulus' packages passed during the past decade are poster children for this. Billions going to make work projects, paperwork shuffling, infrastructure to nowhere, and patronage investments, when essential roads, rails, bridges, ports, tunnels, and aqueducts are literally falling apart.
 
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