Haven’t these schools heard that we all have to pay our fair share?

Eric Owens reports at the Daily Caller.

HAPPY MISERS! Colleges Across Boston Refuse To Pay For Basic City Services

A bunch of fancypants colleges and universities in Boston blatantly fail to pay voluntary fees for essential services provided by the taxpayers, such as police protection, fire protection and snow removal, an analysis by The Boston Globe reveals.

The private schools and their ultra-valuable campuses are tax-exempt by law. However, the city of Boston sends each school a bill twice a year, which requests — but does not demand — payment for basic services rendered.

Out of the 19 schools the Beantown municipal government asks for payments, only six gave even as much as half of the amount sought. The remaining 13 provided less than half — and often way less than half.

At Harvard University, school officials chose to contribute just 44 percent of the amount the city of Boston sought in 2015.

Harvard’s endowment is $36.4 billion. It is larger than the entire gross-domestic product of Jordan and, in fact, larger than half the economies on the planet.

In 2010, Harvard Magazine published a 5,342-word article entitled “Time to Tax Carbon.”

Other schools in Boston were similarly miserly this year when asked to pay any share for services.

Boston College gave just 23 percent of the amount Boston’s officials have sought, for example.

Northeastern University provided just 11 percent of the amount requested.