A day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu singled out state Sen. Nick Collins for killing her tax shift legislation, Collins fired back, saying that Wu’s renewed push to shift more of the city’s tax burden onto businesses would jeopardize the economy.

Collins said that while he supports providing tax relief to homeowners, there are better “common-sense solutions” that have been proposed by the Senate, where the mayor’s proposal to shift more of Boston’s property tax burden from the residential to commercial sector died late last year, and stalled there again this year.

“I strongly support providing tax relief for homeowners but oppose the city’s effort to circumvent Prop 2 ½, which would remove the people’s right to vote on local tax increases,” Collins said Wednesday in a statement. “That is

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