10. Turn Somerville Ave into a toll road
9. Levy a property tax on people living in Cambridge
8. 50% tax on bankers bonuses
7. Bicycle excise tax
6. Swearing fine
5. Pay cut for all city officials
4. City parking meters in Market Basket's parking lot. If management complains threaten to investigate the store for child labor laws
3. Sell your half of Holden Green to Cambridge
2. Don't close it. Issue a bunch of bonds, default on them and then flip off Warren Buffet
1. Two words: Prison Labor
The best course of action is to hire me as a budget closing consultant. I can think of these all day long.
-Andrew Berger
The municipal budget analyst
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Top 10 ways for Somerville to close its budget gap
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2 comments:
i only have real qualms with two of these: the swearing tax and the pay cuts for somerville employees...
other than that, looks pretty good.
you are hired, if you will work on a pro-bono basis as my undersecretary of closing the budget
dan
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