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I aX HaMi - 111G I a1C 17Gralu <br />produce some impressive results. This year, <br />Boston University contributed six million <br />dollars under the plan, and, in total, the City <br />received over $23 million in purely voluntary <br />contributions from its nonprofit sector. <br />In the mid- 198Os, the New Haven Board of <br />Aldermen attempted a similar strategy, <br />establishing a committee, the New Haven <br />Revenue Commission, and tasking it with <br />finding new sources of municipal tax revenue. <br />The Commission recommended that the city <br />commit to an aggressive lobbying campaign at <br />the state level in order to eliminate Yale's tax <br />exemption. Richard Wolff, the former Yale <br />professor who now teaches at the New <br />School, sat on the Commission and <br />coauthored the group's report to the <br />Aldermen. "Basic decency requires that the <br />tax - exempt institutions be required to make <br />reasonable payments to New Haven," Wolff <br />wrote in 1985, specifically targeting Yale for <br />reevaluation. <br />In an interview on Sept. 15, Wolff vehemently <br />condemned Yale's tax relationship with New <br />Haven. "This is the exact definition of Robin <br />Hood in reverse," he said. "It is a very rich <br />university stealing from the poor to be a bit <br />richer than it otherwise might be." <br />rage it or 18 <br />http: / /yaleherald.com/homepage -lead- image /cover - stories /tax - haven/ 10/23/2014 <br />