Thursday, July 25, 2013

Melissa Harris-Perry Couldn't Be More Wrong About the Roots of Detroit's Bankruptcy

(Credit: Madamenoire.com )

Reason Magazine:

"This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub, and it is not a pretty picture." She says budget-cutting Republicans threaten to transform all of the U.S. into Detroit.
What? Detroit has been a "model city" for big-government! All Detroit's mayors since 1962 were Democrats who were eager to micromanage. And spend. Detroit has the only utility tax in Michigan, and its income tax is the third-highest of any big city in America (only Philadelphia and Louisville take more, and they aren't doing great, either).

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/24/stalled-motor-city