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Boston.com - BC, God love it (and ask any alum, He does), is a unique place. It views itself as a college on a hill, never mind that it’s just Chestnut Hill. It firmly believes that if it were not for its very presence, Boston as we know it — as a center for culture and commerce — would cease to exist. At least with all this prosperity, and with its Jesuit principles, you would think BC would be helping its namesake city in whatever way it could. Think again. Colleges are nonprofit institutions and don’t pay property taxes. Most schools, understanding that they can strain a city’s budget, contribute some payments in lieu of taxes. Harvard gave Boston $2 million in 2009. Northeastern kept property on the tax rolls and paid $1.9 million for it. Boston University, the gold standard, paid Boston $4.9 million in lieu of taxes and an additional $3.4 million on property it could have excluded. And BC? The school gave Boston $293,000 in lieu of taxes, and $383,000 in property taxes it elected to pay, for a total payment of $676,500 on the property it owns in Boston. That ranks BC dead last among the four major schools. I called BC’s spokesman, Jack Dunn, who is like a lot of other BC graduates — unfailingly polite and relentlessly proud of his school. “We are opposed to payments in lieu of taxes because we’re a nonprofit organization and have been for 150 years,’’ he said. The school didn’t seem opposed to the 27 firetrucks, seven ambulances, and six cruisers from Boston that raced to Conte Forum when there was an ammonia leak Tuesday morning. BC needs to get over itself.

Well this article wasn’t remotely surprising. I mean I could have told you that BC has a distorted sense of entitlement and doesn’t give a fuck about anybody but themselves. And Superfans wonder why everybody around here hates them. Well shit like this is precisely why. Listen I don’t pretend to know what the rules of being a non profit are, but having said that how is BC a fucking non profit? People are making money hand over fist there. How much does Gene Difillipo make? How much did they just pay their new basketball coach? How much does Spazzioni or whatever his name make? I mean it’s one thing to be a non profit that provides community services, but they don’t. And it’s not like they are a state school offering local kids cheaper tuition either. So what gives? They make a shitload of money and then just pour it back into the school so all their students can live rich pampered boy lives. Is that what being a non profit is all about?  So you can build a state of the art hockey rink and bring the Fray in for Spring Fling and pay all your employees huge fucking salaries. Like why can’t the Stool be a non profit? I don’t want to pay taxes either.   I’ll pay myself a huge salary and reinvest our profit in the company so only people who work for us benefit.   That  sounds like what qualifies BC as a non profit right?  The bottom-line is that if BC is arrogant enough to think they shouldn’t give money back to the city to help offset the drain they are on the community then they should be stripped of their non profit status. It’s that simple. Fuck you BC. Fuck you.