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Meanwhile in #Paris..... having been subjected to a #bedbug infestation & a #sewage problem in the #Seine, now the #Olympics organisers are picking a fight with Paris' riverside #book stalls that they want to absent themselves from the banks while the opening ceremony as their stock boxes are apparently a security risk...

How this will play out for the Paris mayor & Olympics management remains to be seen

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negative12dollarbill,
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@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

BillySmith,
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@negative12dollarbill @riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

I live in East London where the Olympics took place in 2012.

The local property taxes had been increased in 2007 to cover the costs, but the local borough still went into debt to cover the costs.

We'll be paying this off for decades.

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