December 21, 2014

State Rep. Skeptical About Olympic Bid For Boston



MA State Rep. Tim Toomey


[From article]
So far, anyone who has dared to question the bid organizers has been met with answers that are the equivalent of “trust us.”
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In Boston 2024, we see a small group of people promising us that we will all benefit from their success, and that once they have finished throwing a party for the world’s elite, the rest of us will get a crack at the leftovers the next morning. Those of us who have lived through the era of “trickle-down” economics — and who are still waiting, 30 years later, to see any benefit at all from tax cuts for top earners and deregulation of the financial industry — should be wary of this thinking.
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http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20141219/NEWS/141216316

Guest Column: Process for Boston Olympic bid is ‘deeply troublesome'
By Rep. Tim Toomey
Posted Dec. 19, 2014 @ 8:16 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

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