Why raising taxes is nessecary

[pchang]

Unions certainly played a part in refusing "to adapt to the change, trying to keep service levels the same (or rather being way, way to slow to cut) even as the city lost 3/4ths of its population."

[The Mad Monk]

Dunce.

See my previous post.

The only thing I got from your previous post is that you don't know what "one horse town" means.

[Wezil]

No problem - just raise taxes.

Well doh! Why didn't they think of that?

You aren't even coming close to the target.

[Elok]

No problem - just raise taxes.

This is a bit like saying the answer to chronic food insecurity is "just buy more food." IIUC, high tax rates, the poor economy, and various social problems have already driven out a lot of people--the sort of wealthy people who can afford to move, and talented people who can find opportunities elsewhere. The impoverished remainder cannot possibly pay off a mountain of debt incurred by a population twice their size.

[DaShi]

No, the answer to chronic food insecurity is to just raise taxes.

[Dr Strangelove]

In the past 6 months 4 of my insulin-dependent diabetic patients have wound up in the ICU because the Commonwealth of Virginia abruptly cut their food stamps. They went into hypoglycemic shock.

[DinoDoc]

Isn't that an argument that your patients need better financial management skills rather than everyone else needing to pay more to feed them?

[Wezil]

Windsor may acquire a cheap tunnel in the coming fire sale.

Silver linings and all...

[notyoueither]

at the thought that Detroit went bankrupt because of its tax rates, rather than its ludicrous public debts, unfunded pension plans etc. combined with white flight.

Apparently it has been black flight as well recently, as in those who could afford to get out. Those that remain are quite poor for the most part.

The tax base has been destroyed. It would be blood from a stone to raise taxes at this point.

... from what I've been reading.

[KrazyHorse]

Middle class black = white, as far as I'm concerned. Detroit is a ****hole. People who have their lives together moved out. That is the sum total of what I mean by white flight.

[Hauldren Collider]

In the past 6 months 4 of my insulin-dependent diabetic patients have wound up in the ICU because the Commonwealth of Virginia abruptly cut their food stamps. They went into hypoglycemic shock.

Oh for god's sake. If they couldn't find enough ****ing sugar to eat, there's more going on here than not enough food stamps.

[Dinner]

Unions certainly played a part in refusing "to adapt to the change, trying to keep service levels the same (or rather being way, way to slow to cut) even as the city lost 3/4ths of its population."

Of course but that is entirely different from his claim that everything was all the fault of unions.

[Dinner]

The only thing I got from your previous post is that you don't know what "one horse town" means.

In this case I'm using it to describe a town completely, utterly, totally economically dependent on just one industry. An industry which has been in decline for 40+ years.

[Hauldren Collider]

Why isn't Pittsburgh as bad as Detroit then?

[Hauldren Collider]

An industry which has been in decline for 40+ years.

This is nonsense. Americans haven't been buying fewer cars. They've been buying fewer union-made cars. These days, cars are made in the South by Toyota or Hyundai, instead of GM and Ford in the North.