Weston Select Board member asks: Are all towns created equally? Harvey Boshart Over the past year, there has been much conversation surrounding the level of taxes in Weston relative to nine other purported comparable towns. Most of these discussions have intentionally utilized town’s “average” tax bills, which, as anyone that has taken an introductory statistics course would tell you, is wildly misleading. The “average” is meaningfully distorted by a small number of homes that are way to the right of the curve. By analyzing the more appropriate median tax bill, the alleged Weston “premium” is cut in half from 36% to 17%, with three towns finishing close behind Weston.