Poverty rate cause of tax base woes

by Telegram - December 31, 2009 3:50pm

The Chamber of Commerce says that the dual-tax rate is stagnating Worcester’s commercial growth. Not true. What’s undermining Worcester’s commercial and residential tax base isn’t the dual tax rate, it’s the growing poverty rate.

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