Comments on: Flatliners Inhabit Binghamton City Hall

By: Binghamton Landlords Tell Mayor Ryan to Keep His 80% Property Tax Hike : RSSBinghamton.com

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:27:07 +0000

[...] Mayor Matt Ryan and the Citizen Action Council (formerly known as the Binghamton City Council) are backpedaling, at least for appearances, on their scheme to raise property taxes of city landlords by 80%. The landlords are not taking it sitting down–good for them! Yesterday, a group of 25 landlords got in the good mayor’s face outside City Hall and let him know, loudly, that they will not only fight him, they’ll sue him to stop the legislation that he and City Council are trying to ram through that would make landlords pay the higher commercial property tax rate, thereby raising their rates an average 80%. (See my post Flatliners Inhabit Binghamton City Hall.) [...]

By: Jim Willis

Jim Willis — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:29 +0000

Thanks for the comment Brent. Yes, let’s hope the lunacy is contained within the boundaries of Binghamton. Learn from our mistakes!

By: Brent Beckley

Brent Beckley — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:04:32 +0000

I was just as surprised as you were this morning, Jim. This couldn’t be any more blatant! God I hope this behavior doesn’t spill past the “Home of the Square Deal” arch on Main Street into my part of town…but, I am starting to see seepage…as in sewer seepage.