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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesFUND RAISINGView with A Room: $10
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- Is the view from your office so nice that you should be
- charged admission? In Hartford, companies are being asked to pay
- a voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing
- upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old
- State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson
- Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the
- view tax as a fund-raising gimmick. The total panes with a view:
- 4,153.
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- Faude sent bills to the occupants of those offices last
- week, and already two companies have paid up: a savings bank (94
- panes) and an insurance firm (twelve). How will Faude enforce
- his tax on neighbors who would rather view for free? He jokes,
- "The next time the window washers come around, somebody may find
- their view has been painted out."
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