[cripplecreek]

Nobody's that bold.

In a sense that's exactly what Rand Paul is proposing as a pilot program that can be extended to other port cities and beyond. He says he wants to see them cut all business and personal taxes to 5%. Since Michigan and Detroit already allow private competition with many city services, its likely that private contractors will take over many of them.

Saginaw cut their city employees from 500 down to 20 with private contractors hiring most of the employees.

[grania]

The thing is, I wouldn't trust Detroit with anything. Canada running the shoreline economy would keep the money out of their hands. If the money went directly from Canada to that pension obligation and to public safety it could be kept away from the corruption.

The pension problems are more manageable than they seem, if they just raise what employees pay in and lower their payout for people still working.