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How to cut the city budget even further than Guinta's draconian school and service slashing measures?
Just stop paying taxes:
Mayor Frank Guinta yesterday paid more than $3,000 in past due 2007 real estate taxes and nearly $300 in an outstanding 2006 wastewater bill on property he owns on Youville Street.
The mayor said he was unaware of a real estate tax lien and a wastewater lien filed against his three-family residential investment property by the city tax collector's office until informed by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Now, normally I would have some sympathy for this sort of thing. I mean, Guinta's Republican party under Bush has destroyed our economy, and people are suffering everywhere. As John Edwards' notes, we are a nation of people who put their bills into two piles - pay now and pay later.
But this is an investment property and bills so dated we are in certified letter and lien territory here. Not exactly the situation many of us find ourselves in, pinching pennies and hoping we can save enough each week for the tax bill on our primary residence.
Part of me wonders whether the Mayor had any intention of paying it had it not been discovered by the press.
