Wu Calls For Boston Tax Hike While Charging Three Days in Canada

Ol' "Let Them Eat Cake" Michelle Wu is proposing a 13 percent tax increase for residential property owners in Boston while simultaneously calling for an end to the property tax-limiting Proposition 2 1/2, but still had the chutzpah to charge a three-day junket to Canada on the people of Boston's credit card.

Boston.com reported, "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu used more than $11,000 in taxpayer dollars to fund her trip to Canada last month, according to documents provided by the city."

Wu, her husband, three kids, and several staff members traveled to Nova Scotia for three days in November, where her Honor "wielded a chainsaw" to help to fell the City of Boston's annual Christmas tree.

The publication said, "The trip was meant to highlight and strengthen the ties between Boston and Nova Scotia" and included meetings with local officials.

Boston 25 News cited a Boston Herald report that said the total cost of the trip was $13,365, which "covered flights, hotel accommodations, and other costs for the mayor and members of her team." Wu's family paid their own expenses, except for the hotel room they shared with the mayor.

A $2,000 private donation reportedly paid the expenses of the city's interim Parks Commissioner.

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Nova Scotia gifts Boston a Christmas Tree each year in appreciation for the city's help following a massive explosion in Halifax in 1917.

Britannica.com said the "devastating explosion on December 6, 1917, occurred when a munitions ship blew up in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada."

"Nearly 2,000 people died, and some 9,000 were injured in the disaster, which flattened more than 1 square mile (2.5 sq km) of the city of Halifax," according to the site.

The explosion was reportedly one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.

The Nova Scotia tree, a 45-foot white spruce, now stands in Boston Common.