On Thu, November 10, 2005 4:33 pm, vmax wrote: > Well the city of detroit did give the rich white biz's owners a very > large and hefty tax break to move there companies down to the city. > The down side to this is that with such tax breaks add no tax revenue > to pay for thing that need to get payed for like school, fire > services, police services, road work, etc.
we're actually dealing with something similar in pittsburgh right now. i forget the exact % of tax free properties in the city but its ridiculously high because of these give aways. people seem to think that having these big businesses move in will magically fix everything. it doesnt, of course. these businesses only care about finding the way to do things in the most cheap manner. as soon as theyre offered something better elsewhere (other cities, other countries), they roll out, devastating the local community. its all about building up grass roots community oriented businesses. > The corruption is so > thick in Detroit that the money the city does have gets spent in > way's that do not help out the common folk. Like the mayor need to > spend millions on cars and protection, or does he? ;) im not really sure how corrupt the pittsburgh govt is, its not a big thing. but im sure its all very buddy buddy with the rich white guys. our former mayor was actually really smart and had good ideas, but the white people here sh*t all over him at every opportunity. ditto with our former superintendant of schools. > In my time in > detroit I found the biggest problem Detroit has is apathy. Not much > will change if the apathy stays so thick.. thats probably a problem in every city in the US especially, but likely all over the world. tom
