“I’m waiting for them to use some trick to collect taxes from suburbs and nearby communities....you know, the place where people escaped to get away from Detroit.”
The city council, the unions, and their members, are running a bluff, holding out in the hope (belief) that Obama and the Dem’s will bail them out. And, if Obama can find an opening to do this he will indeed do it. The senate is a lost cause, at least until prayerfully the next election. But, the GOP has instinctive primordial knack for screwing up their chances, time after time. And, I have no hope that tet won’t do it again. So, our hope of last recourse is the House. “Maybe”, it will hang tough - if House conservatives can prop up Boehner so that he won’t go wobbly and start crying. When, oh when, do we get rid of Boehner?????
I know how to fix Detroit and make the real estate there worth a fortune.
Make it a true free enterprise zone with NO TAXES on income for say 30 years.
Dump the big $ retirement for all the old city employees under the bankruptcy and give them pennies on the dollar.
Instate an honest poll tax per person for city upkeep. The poll tax would flush the refuse away and keep them OUT.
Businessmen would be desperate to locate there...it would be like the gold rush.