Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Traffic, Trafficking, and Taxes Oh My!

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“Do you know why I pulled you over?”
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Oh what a week is was during the week after Thanksgiving Day.

While the Quincy Quarry News news team mostly spent the days following Thanksgiving in a tryptophan torpor from excessively chowing on leftover turkey and other Thanksgiving dinner leftovers and  watching football games not featuring the New England Patriots, it was still impossible for the Quincy Quarry news crew to overlook the further problematic increases in traffic and trafficking in Quincy in recent days.

Your basic masshole
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For example, in recent days to perhaps the last few weeks, the Quincy Police Department has been conducting a pull over and warning of drivers who are engaging in lesser traffic law violations traffic violation sting at a location that Quincy Quarry has not disclosed for reasons obvious.

In any event as well as needless to say, about Q’ing time.

Next up, in the wake of last week’s illegal drugs and weapons bust, this week Quincy police officers undertook a low speed pursuit of a stolen van.

Initially, the chase winded mostly through West Quincy until the van ended up on 93 heading south.

Fleeing the police
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And subsequently, the chase ended when the van crashed near the Canton/Milton line in the general vicinity of the Blue Hills Ski Area after first leading a chase taken over by Massachusetts State Police that snaked across much of the Blue Hills Reservation.

The chase was especially dramatic even if slow as along the way two of the tires on the van blew for reasons unknown to Quincy Quarry. 

Accordingly, the van was so spewing sparks given that it was riding on two metal wheel rims and two tires while driven by a driver who was desperately seeking to not be arrested.

Tax Collector Herr Dobermann and his dog
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And speaking of hoping to avoid facing the music, on Monday the Koch Maladministration is scheduled to present to the City Council for its approval the property tax rates to be imposed in Calendar Year 2024.

Needless to say, both the City Council and especially the Maladministration will try to blame the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (“DOR”) for setting the tax rates.

So what for the fact that all the DOR does is certify what local property tax rates must be imposed to flesh out the bulk of the funding of Mayor Koch’s duly calculated and surely at least modern era record-setting 9.7% spending increase for Fiscal Year 2024 from his FY 2023 budget.

Enough already!!!
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While wild cards and arguable shell gaming of things are only to be expected, long ago Quincy Quarry projected as a public service warning its pro forma projections for residential property tax bill increases in Calendar Year 2024.

In turn, Quincy Quarry News’ ever-growing legions of loyal readers can only properly count on the Quarry to report on just much will be picked from local homeowners’ pockets so as to largely pay for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s penchant for profligate spending.

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