Speaker Bolger’s proposal to force unions to kick in to the pensions makes all the sense in the world and the rest of the Republicans in Lansing need to get on board. Sounds like he’s not getting support for it and I can’t imagine why not.
We can all live in hellholes like Detroit if Democrats keep winning elections.
“A recent poll shows the bailout to be unpopular among voters, particularly Republicans and independents”. Yeah,it can get cold outside in the winter,too.
“Wolfram said if the revenue is used to do what residents want government to do — protect life, liberty and property — than it is an efficient way to do it.
On average, Detroit police took 58 minutes to respond to an emergency call in 2013, according to its June 2013 Proposal to Creditors. The national average is 11 minutes.”
Liberal logic would conclude that they need more revenue to decrease response time. Insanity!
“...The law states that a city has to have a population of 600,000 or more to enact the tax, meaning Detroit is the only city that meets the requirement to implement the tax. That population figure has been lowered to specially benefit the city as population dropped....”
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Well, some localities are more equal than others. Detroit is, in many ways, more equal than all the other county and local governments in Michigan.
Michigan is a sovereign state. If it decides to bail out Detroit that is up to them. I think it would be foolish of them and I personally would not want to bail out any city or locality that has spent itself into bankruptcy. Let the chickens come home to roost at the spendthrift municipality.