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Romanticizing the poor
Leave it to snarky Gawker to explode another of those urban-homesteading myths so favored by a certain kind of press, and a certain type of author: Today’s New York Times Page One recession-porn...
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What’s fair in non-profits’ property taxes? Part 1, follow the money
By:David A. Smith When it comes to property taxes to be paid by tax-exempt institutions, what’s the right thing to do? The question continues to heat up as the Great Recession keep wreaking its...
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What’s fair in non-profits’ property taxes? Part 2, from Never to Sometimes
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] Yesterday’s post introduced the little morality play of rich Brown and poor Providence, with the city asking Brown to pay more, voluntarily,...
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What’s fair in non-profits’ property taxes? Part 3, from Sometimes to...
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and Part 1.] By:David A. Smith In yesterday’s Part 2 we discovered that although a city’s claim to increased payments from its non-profit institutions derives...
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What’s fair in non-profits’ property taxes? Part 4, from Occasionally to...
[Continued from Wednesday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By:David A. Smith In search of principles to govern whether non-profits should pay extra tax-like payments to the cities...
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