That was sarcasm.
Check out the front page of wbztv.com and the story on the news last night. Yet another in a long line of stories about crime in our little town.
The citizens police academy opened my eyes (sometimes I wished not) to the growing crime problem, thanks in part to our convenient location. As you know we're at the crossroads of many interstates and convenient to Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Providence, even on the way from New York City.
Our location, in addition to all the transient/temporary resident population thanks to the proliferation of motels has led to a crime wave exacerbated by the internet. From underage parties, to drinking, drugs and prostitution, even sexual predators setting up meetings, any kind of vice you can imagine happens in these motels semi-regularly.
It's one of those unintended consequences of having a thriving business population - that increased crime can lead to increased taxes for residents.
One stat that jumped out to me which kind of drives everything - we have a business hours population in town of 75000+. So we get the problems, infrastructure and service needs of a city that has to be supported by a residential population of a mid-sized town of only 16000.
So maybe having that dual tax rate isn't so bad after all - makes up for the additional police, fire and highway services required by all that activity.
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