The Boston Globe has recently brought in admiring articles about a new $125 million building, designed by a Dutch architect, that will be the headquarters of Boston's public schools, and a new $182 million science building at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
If you, like me, are a Boston or Massachusetts taxpayer in the private sector being taxed to pay for these things and you are keeping your residence or business or privately funded school in less luxurious quarters, the justice or wisdom of being taxed, or borrowing, to finance such luxurious accommodations for public employees may be something less than obvious. Whatever happened to the old Yankee virtue of thrift?