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[video] MSNBC Analyst Says Detroit is Result of Not Enough Government and Blames Republicans

Posted by: Matt Liponoga Posted date: July 19, 2013 In: News | comment : 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

MSNBC decided to tackle the issue of Detroit filing bankrupcy on Friday’s show. Of course, they came up with the analysis that Detroit’s problem was that there isn’t enough government.

Detroit’s population has been dwindling for years and at one point had become so small that they were not even allowed to collect income taxes. That was until Governor Rick Snyder passed legislation allowing the population limit to be 600,000 in order to collect taxes from it’s citizens.

“This lack of tax base is also exactly the thing that many Republicans would impose on us even when our cities have sufficient populations,” Melissa Harris-Perry said. “Even when our communities have sufficient populations. This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown if your bathtub and it is not a pretty picture.”

Melissa Harris-Perry went on to note that Detroit’s tax base, e.g. the city’s population, has declined dramatically in the last decade. Citizens left the city at a rate of one resident every 22 minutes in 2011. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the city having one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation with a poverty rate of a staggering 40 percent.

But let’s look at the facts of whether too much government was to blame. As Kevin Williamson said from National Review economics blogger,

Detroit today employs one city worker for every 55 residents, as opposed to one city worker for every 109 residents in Charlotte, which is just barely bigger than Detroit and one city worker for every 101 residents in El Paso, which is one spot down from Detroit on the population rankings.

Detroit over the last several decades has been a hotspot for deceit and corruption, and even as such, one of the biggest issues is their pension program. Kevin Williamson continued on to say,

Detroit maintains 13,000 government workers but has 22,000 government retirees burrowed into the body politic, and their health-care subsidies alone account for nearly $200 million of the city’s budget. Pensions alone already account for a quarter of city spending; in three years, they will account for half. Pensions and city workers’ health-care subsidies account for $561 per year from every resident of Detroit, which has a very poor population — average monthly income of barely $1,200 before taxes, a fifth of the population in poverty, etc. The official unemployment rate is 30 percent; the real rate is much higher.





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http://www.alipac.us/f9/judge-orders...filing-283930/