Conservatives have been whining about the deadbeats at Zuccotti Park. Turns out they were right:

City taxpayers have poured millions of dollars and hundreds of police hours into keeping the peace at the privately owned Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street protests. The least the park’s owners could do is pay their taxes. The city Finance Department says park owner Brookfield Properties and its parent company, Brookfield US Corp., currently owe the city more than $139,000 in unpaid business taxes from 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Lawbreaking thugs like these are probably hurting the tourist industry. Perhaps police should be dispatched to the scene, pepper spray cans in hand, to remove the offending parties from the space.