I'll bet the Mayor is sorry now

As news is slowly creeping out that the City has begun laying off employee's. I hear tell it's two DPW workers.  I wonder if there will be any high paying employee's or any division heads who will have their salaries cut by 10 or 20 percent. Meanwhile, the highest paid employee's (cops) will continue to take every advantage of the city.

But this post is about the tax and host community revenue that we are not getting, thanks to, among others, Gov Charlie Baker, the Mayor's marijuana swat team, Dennis Giombetti's Marijuana Task Force and the gutless city council who just brushed off the entire industry coming to Framingham. 

Mass Live did a comprehensive piece on how much the State and the Cities are loosing because of Baker's non-essential status pot shops fall under. 

https://www.masslive.com/marijuana/2020/05/with-no-recreational-marijuana-sales-during-coronavirus-pandemic-and-thousands-more-medical-patients-state-and-municipalities-to-see-impact-on-tax-revenue.html

Mayors from Amesbury, Greenfield, Lowell, Lynn, Marlboro, Newton, and Northampton.
have signed a letter to Baker pleading to let the pot shops open. The letter urges the governor to give the adult-use marijuana industry the opportunity to return to the fold and to contribute much needed revenue to municipalities in the state.


https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2020/05/14/fitchburg-mayor-joins-others-in-signing-letter-calling-for-marijuana-retailers-to-open/