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...main source of city revenue—such as reexamining property assessment methods or working with the state legislature. Councilor Timothy Toomey, Jr. and Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who is one of the nine council members, each suggested that additional funds from Harvard could help ease the burden on overtaxed residents.estion of whether taxes should be cut at the expense of social services. “There is no other community in the state that comes close to providing the level of services that we provide to our citizens,” said Councilor Toomey, praising Cambridge for services like...
...some extent, we place the burden of configuring lists on the people who are creating the list, with the implicit understanding that we will help people with whatever they need help with,” said Gline, who is also a Crimson columnist...
...witness an increase in allocated student space, it is doubtful that these bastions of snobbery would disappear. As long as people want to get in, final clubs will maintain their air of exclusivity and, therefore, their perceived place atop Harvard’s social hierarchy. The burden of erasing this unfounded distinction and undermining this skewed power dynamic rests with Harvard students—only if we stop treating the clubs as prestigious, stop eagerly waiting outside their doors, and stop anxiously punching, will the clubs cease to dominate the College’s social landscape...
...wage, we can expect one of two scenarios to result. The first option, fewer jobs, is decidedly unpalatable, and thus it’s understandable that many students would rally against it. Unfortunately, the other option is an increase in our tuition, which is already enough of a financial burden to any family...
...argue that society shares the burden of elevating the quality of life of its lowest-earning members to some minimum threshold. However, to attempt to eliminate the spread of wages over the range of possible jobs and the skills, training, difficulty, and risk associated with those positions flies in the face of any logic. No group or organization can thoughtfully demand wages 50 percent higher than their current level and nearly double the fair wage as valued by the nation as a whole...