Help End The Obama Era In 2012
Your Monthly and Quarterly Donations
Help Keep FR In the Battle!
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Where I live, the city has been charging an occupation tax to people who live in the suburbs, but work in the city. There have been efforts to permit the city schools to absorb some suburban school districts, but so far, that hasn’t gone over well.
None of this is new, and yes, it’s a scam for the suburbanites.
Kurtz is correct, but he is intellectually dishonest. The word
“white” does not appear in his article, except as in “White House”. Kurtz knows darn well that a primary aim of “redistributing” from suburbs to cities is to redistribute from whites to blacks and Hispanics. By phrasing it as “suburbs vs. cities” he is trying to avoid charges of racism and race-baiting, but everyone knows what he is talking about, so he might as well own up. I guess Kurtz doesn’t want to end up like Derbyshire.
Aren’t they already doing that?
I mean, Columbus has gone out and annexed all of Franklin County and then some.
Everybody else PAYS!
When energy sources are restricted and very expensive people are forced to live close to public transportation and in ‘planned’ communities.
That way the productive can once again be taxed to support the nonproductive takers.
I don’t see much to be concerned about other than the claim that Obama is going to do this. Federal Tax dollars are Federal Tax dollars. They always go to where Congress wants and the President gets what Congress gives him.
There has never been any expectation that just because your region produced x amount of Federal Tax Revenue that your region then gets x amount back in projects and programs.
City tax isn’t new either. New York’s been doing it for decades as far as I know.
Now I do get concerned about co-opting revenue from unincorporated suburbs, but don’t care about incorporated suburbs.
Usagi’s law of Lucrativity: The more lucrative your earnings, the more palm you see.
I’ve known Vegas Cocktail waitresses that earn over $500 a night but when all said and done, they only take home 1/3 of that.
I would love to see Romney run an ad highlighting the “benefit” that cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Oakland, and Chicago have gotten from 50+ years of liberal Democrat rule.
Imagine an ad called “Thank You.”
Open with shots of burned out buildings, homeless camps, soup kitchen lines, and union protests in the above mentioned cities.
Voiceover: “In this busy campaign season, we would like to take a moment to say a well-deserved ‘Thank You’ to the liberals who have been running these fine cities for the last 50 years.
Thank you for 20% unemployment... (photos of Detroit)
Thank you for a teacher’s union that cares more about its own perks than about giving our children a chance at a bright future. (photos of angry Chicago teachers)
Thank you for block after block of abandoned buildings that now serve as havens for drug dealers and derelicts.
Thank you for turning once proud American manufacturing cities into national laughingstocks (photos of cleveland)
Keep up the great work! Here’s to another 50 years of liberal rule!
Taxation without representation.
Cities are just black holes for money. There is never enough money for them. States should just cut them off and make them their own city -state. Chicago would like to declare the whole state a suburb if that meant more tax base for them.
Here in New York they used to have a commuter tax. It was for workers that lived in the suburbs and supposed to pay for Firemen, Police and Sanitation. It was killed in 1999.
To make up for the loss they now have an MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) tax. It is a .34% tax on the payroll of everyone that lives anywhere near where the MTA serves whether you use the trains to commute or not.
Philadelphia has a commuter income tax of 3.4985% on income earned in the city.
You’re not suppose to run from all the great things diversity has to offer.
California’s Prop. 31: The Revolution Will Not Be Publicized
Also by Stanley Kurtz
And it will pass because Californians are just stupid, and I say that as one who was born here and never left.
“Obama’s Plan for Ohio : Making suburban taxpayers prop up failing Democratic cities”
“Suburban”? That’s a racist term.