Meanwhile ... there's a giant hole in the ground on Cottage Street - heralding 'the B&B that cronyism built'. How appropriate that it's next to the Municipal Building. The big commercial money in Bar Harbor builds only for its own benefit - enabled by the Town Council and committees which they dominate. Bar Harbor as a microcosm of the larger problems in American society caused by the same incremental encroachment on government by big money. Bar Harbor needs a wealth tax. Not overall hikes in property taxes which has a greater impact on low and modest income owners than on developers and big property owners.
Meanwhile ... there's a giant hole in the ground on Cottage Street - heralding 'the B&B that cronyism built'. How appropriate that it's next to the Municipal Building. The big commercial money in Bar Harbor builds only for its own benefit - enabled by the Town Council and committees which they dominate. Bar Harbor as a microcosm of the larger problems in American society caused by the same incremental encroachment on government by big money. Bar Harbor needs a wealth tax. Not overall hikes in property taxes which has a greater impact on low and modest income owners than on developers and big property owners.