Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-12 Thread Kevin Reynolds
I made a little musical contribution: check out the song here, politics and music do go hand in hand. http://www.kilpatrick2005.com/ -kev

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread alex . bond
it means business will continue to avoid detroit like the plague and white people will continue to be scared and distrustful of the city. oh and that the city will remain a national laughingstock other than that, no big deal so, basically that doesn't sound too hot. it's weird, you'd think all

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Thu, November 10, 2005 3:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it means business will continue to avoid detroit like the plague and white people will continue to be scared and distrustful of the city. oh and that the city will remain a national laughingstock other than that, no big deal so,

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread vmax
On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: On Thu, November 10, 2005 3:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it means business will continue to avoid detroit like the plague and white people will continue to be scared and distrustful of the city. oh and that the city will remain

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
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

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread cyborgk
Not very music related, but this is a big issue on the global scale; this is the same reason why all these development zones that give huge incentives to corporations to build factories in third world countries never and up doing much for the countries themselves. The country doesn't get any taxes

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Thu, November 10, 2005 7:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess that cities have the same problem - so along with the tax breaks, cities would have to make sure that somehow the corporation gives back to the city in some way. my guess is that the jobs they supply to the residents,

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread vmax
On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: my guess is that the jobs they supply to the residents, and of course the payroll taxes taken from those wages paid to them, are what they consider giving back to the city. In concept this would be true, but when a company employs

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2005-11-10 Thread /0
YEAH! I'm with stupid Thomas D. Cox wrote: On Thu, November 10, 2005 3:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it means business will continue to avoid detroit like the plague and white people will continue to be scared and distrustful of the

Re: (313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Thu, November 10, 2005 8:29 pm, vmax wrote: In concept this would be true, but when a company employs let's say 2000 give or take people that is not a a whole lot of tax dollars going into the city. Then you have like in Detroit, Compuware came into the city and most of the people that

(313) Detroit Politics Thread

2005-11-10 Thread alex . bond
So folks. Anyone who can explain to a total dullard what exactly it means for detroit to have the hip-hop mayor back in power? is this a good/bad thing? does a mayor have a lot of power in america? just curious. thanks alex _

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2005-11-10 Thread Dan Bean
Anyone who can explain to a total dullard what exactly it means for detroit to have the hip-hop mayor back in power? is this a good/bad thing? does a mayor have a lot of power in america? I don't know exactly what it means, but I get the impression that Kilpatrick has a pretty bad