PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Dozens of taxpayers confronted Mayor Brett Smiley at the State House on Tuesday after a hearing on a bill that would give Providence permission to exceed the state-mandated tax levy cap of 4% for one year.
“You want to tax us to park, you want to tax us to live, you want to tax us for everything,” one woman told Smiley. “Just tell us the truth. You want to gentrify the hell out of Providence.”
“That is not true,” Smiley responded…