Why did the Democrats in Detroit keep electing Democrat politicians? Was it because they thought that the Democrat politicians would get the most efficient and effective use out of the taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars? Or did the Democrat voters of Detroit keep electing Democrat politicians because the voters thought the politicians would steal hard-earned tax dollars for them? If this is the case, then that makes the Democrat voters accomplices to the crimes. Treat them like all criminal accomplices. Fine them to pay for the horrible results of their crimes. If they can’t pay, then they lose their vote.
The rats elected rats for two reasons -
Racial preferences and the party of free stuff that was going to make the productive pay their fair share - inevitably the productive fled the city.
By the way - 2.5B is insignificant when you kick around the money everyone owes thanks to Uncle Sugar. The most important lesson of Detroit is how it illustrates the inevitable ending for our entire nation based on big government redistribution schemes.