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Boston Mayor Offers Sanctuary To Wall Street Firms Fearing De Blasio
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Feb 18, 2014
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Mayor de Blasio's made no secret of the fact that he's trying to free the proletarians from their chains and hang the last capitalist who sold him the rope raise taxes on the rich. And, naturally, some rich New Yorkers have taken to sleeping on pillows made of thousand dollar bills and hiding their paychecks between bespoke Macassar Ebony floorboards, for fear that the City Hall KGB will come confiscate their riches. Luckily the Mayor of Boston has a solution for these poor embattled billionaires: move to Beantown!
According to the Boston Globe, Mayor Marty Walsh of Boston (you know, Joe Biden's best friend) has been making an effort to woo New York businesses away from the city. He's reportedly been culling information on how best to pick the Wall Street bros out of FiDi and plunk them right down on the Freedom Trail, or wherever business is conducted in Boston. That gold building from The Departed. That pond with the swans. Or something.
It goes without saying that Walsh is dreaming. Tax incentives or no tax incentives, you'd still have to live in Boston, and no amount of money can make Red Sox fans go away.
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