VOL. 122 - NO. 2 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 11, 2019 $.35 A COPY Boston Property Taxes Rise in 2019 Socialism Destroys Venezuelan Economy, with Surging Real Estate Values Freshmen Democrats want it Here by Matt Conti Harold Pease, Ph. D Rising real estate increased this year to Hugo Chavez proclaimed paying for the free stuff can no values are once again $2,719 from $2,538. December 6, 1998, when he longer afford to pay for both the driving significantlyy Owners can also fi le for was elected president of Ven- free stuff and their own stuff. higher City of Boston the residential exemp- ezuela, “Venezuela’s resurrec- And the folks who are paying property taxes for fi s- tion credit if they own tion is under way and nothing for the free stuff want the free cal 2019. Area home- and occupy a prop- and nobody can stop it.” At stuff to stop. owners are reportedlyy erty as of the previous the time, Venezuela had one of “And the folks who are getting st seeing a mid-to-high January 1 . the best economies and high- the free stuff want even more single digit percentage Roughly, 70% of the est per capita incomes in Latin free stuff on top of the free increase in their assessment City’s budget is funded by real America. The lure of socialism, stuff they are already getting. from the city’s mailing of its estate taxes. With its higher where the government controls Now, the people who are forcing recent property tax bills due on values, the downtown Boston and distributes most everything, the people who pay for the free st February 1 . neighborhoods pay the major- overwhelmed the country. stuff have told the people who The median home value in ity of property taxes in the city. Twenty years later three mil- are RECEIVING the free stuff the North End is $717,800, There are two factors that lion have fl ed from Chavez’s “new that the people who are PAYING according to Zillow, trans- directly change an owner’s and improved” socialism and his for the free stuff are being mean, lating to an annual property property tax: (1) a change in people are starving. Public la- prejudiced, and racist. tax bill of $7,565. Downtown the assessed value and (2) a trines are overfl owing with urine, Harold Pease, Ph. D “So, the people who are GET- Boston values are higher with change in the tax rate. Boston’s escalators do not work, public remedies that have never worked TING the free stuff have been a median value of $1,069,600. property tax system refl ects a water systems and street lighting where socialism has been en- convinced they need to hate the That means paying a property “see-saw” between commercial are not reliable and citizens eat trenched. people who are paying for the tax levy of $11,273, under the and residential taxes. When from the public refuge. The aver- Beware of politicians who wish free stuff by the people who are new residential rate. commercial property tax values age citizen has lost 20 pounds in to do “good” with someone else’s forcing some people to pay for The city’s residential tax rate are down (or rise slower) due to the last several months. Today money. They are abundant in their free stuff and giving them increased marginally this year, the economy, a higher burden nearly 90% live in poverty and both major political parties but the free stuff in the fi rst place. from $10.48 to $10.54 per thou- shifts to residential properties. hyperinfl ation is nearing a mil- have overwhelmed the Demo- “We have let the free stuff giv- sand dollars value. However, The higher City tax levy is lion percent. The once oil-rich cratic Party, more especially the ing go on for so long that there citywide property assessments generally split with about half country now has the appearance freshman class led by Alexandria are now more people getting increased high-single digits on of the increase coming from the of being war-torn. Socialism de- Ocasio-Cortez, and will destroy free stuff than paying for the a percentage basis, following 2.5% increase allowed under stroyed Venezuela. liberty for us too. Here is why. free stuff.” a similar increase last year. Proposition 2 1/2 and the rest The lure of socialism, some- Under socialism vote power Ultimately voters learn that The commercial rate actually coming from new development thing for nothing, fi rst neces- favors those who want things they can purchase members decreased slightly. Because added to the tax base. sitates villainization of those for free: food, welfare, housing, of Congress who will take from residential values are rising Property owners can fi le for who have. Those who produce and healthcare — even free col- those who have and give it to faster, homeowners will bear a tax abatement if they believe become the “public enemy” lege, as they in time become the them. Legalized plunder. As more of this year’s tax increase. their assessment is incorrect. class. Once this is accomplished majority. This process is ac- those who have are disincentiv- In a spot of relief, the owner- The deadline to fi le for a tax the public, whose numbers are ized to invest further, the poor st celerated, and corrupted, when occupied residential exemption abatement is February 1 . always the majority and poor, politicians link government gift class grows, as does their cry support the asset confi scation giving with being elected. This for even more from those who of those who have and produce has happened in America too. have, thus the managerial and — this usually by confi scatory As the poor, as a class, always funding class are extinguished. News Briefs taxes or outright governmental tend to favor government inter- The middle class is now seen as takeover. vention and thus fi nancial favors those who have and are next to by Sal Giarratani The prosperity class is the from government to their ben- be extinguished by the increas- group that risks capital loss efi t, and since all government ing strength of the poor class They’re Trying to Break to fund experimentation that money comes from the middle until all remaining are poor. produces businesses that re- and upper classes through ever This is Venezuela now and the President Trump sults in jobs for the masses. increasing taxes, (presently 47% United States too soon if it does It does seem clear that the Washington Establishment When has a poor man created of the adult population pay no not change direction. Deep State (Democrats and Republicans) are at war employment for others? Yes federal income tax and a good This is Economics 101 but with President Trump. Talk has already started con- they are profi t motivated, which share of these make up the non- many freshmen Democrat Con- cerning impeachment and the lapdog media allies sometimes makes the investor productive class) they eventually gressmen appear oblivious to MSNBC and CNN are already on the same page. It is more prosperous. That is the destroy the productive base of this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s all about removing Trump from offi ce before the 2020 carrot that elevates society. But society as government takes advocacy of a 70% income tax on elections. Pure and simple! should they miscalculate they over more of the economy by America’s richest would escalate It does seem that the anti-Trump Resistance is are the most hurt. When govern- confi scation or regulation. The our economic demise. relentless. Their campaign to take down the duly ment makes prosperity unlikely overriding principle is, the more Dr. Harold Pease is a syndi- elected president began on Day 1, the moment he beat through confi scatory taxes they socialism the higher the taxes cated columnist and an expert Clinton in 2016. This crew has never accepted Trump quit investing. Government is and burden on the producing on the United States Constitu- as the president. They would like nothing better than ineffi cient by its nature. There class. tion. He has dedicated his career to give him the boot from the Oval Offi ce. Everything exists no individual penalty for Those who feed off the labor to studying the writings of the good he does belongs to Obama. Everything bad is their mistakes once they are in of others need to know what Founding Fathers and applying Trump’s fault. If we think the country is divided now, power. Socialism destroys the they are doing to a country by that knowledge to current events. wait ands see what happens if they succeed in remov- creative investment class. pushing for the “freebies.” An He taught history and political ing him from offi ce. We need to fi x this train wreck we Chavez was right “nothing and unknown author nailed the science from this perspective for are heading for. nobody can stop it.” Once the problem when he wrote. over 30 years at Taft College. We are supposed to be Americans united, not productive class is destroyed it “The folks who are getting the Newspapers have permission to partisan enemies trying to take out each other. Our is all downhill. Fuera Maduro, free stuff don’t like the folks publish this column. To read more Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves the new president, could only who are paying for the free of his weekly articles, please visit over our current state of affairs.