Freemason9
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Tell us all, please, how "progressive policies" destroyed Detroit?
Because progressives fail to understand the problems that they want to fix, their solutions make things worse. All cities rot from the center our, and if you don't understand that, then you cannot properly stop the rot. The first mistake, is downtown redevelopment, ususally started with a downtown redevelopement agency. This takes money away from the rest of the city, and that begins to deteriorate. However, the political elite live and/or work in the city center, and that is what is important to them.
Not enough tax money? Absorb more areas and increase the tax base. Use that money in an attempt to stop the rot that was allowed by putting all the money downtown. Then the area absorbed begins to deteriorate because the money that used to repair their roads is now repairing roads in the old city.
As taxes go up in the city, and conditions continue to degrade, the middle class pack up and move further out. Lower income people move into the now cheaper neighborhoods, and the cycle continues. A ring of rot slowly moves out and engulfs more of the city. Anyone looking will see that ring of rot in just about every city in America.
How to fix this? Pass a national law that makes it a hanging offense to even mention downtown redevelopment. Those people want their neighhorhood redevelped, they can afford to do it themselves.
So your solution for redeveloping deteriorating business districts is to stop development efforts? And your solution for insufficient tax revenues to cope with population growth is to limit the tax base?
You see, this is why it appears that people like you have no solutions. Because you don't. And, BTW, redevelopment efforts and annexation are not "progressive" policies--they are embraced by a wide variety of economic development professionals.