[NorthMountain]

In business you take any amount of capital and the game is to turn it into more.

In socialism, you take any amount of tax money, and the game is to turn it into more gibsmedats.

The Maryland communists took 130 million taxpayer dollars, and turned Baltimordor into a city full of gibsmedats. Not a bad return on their 'investment' ...

[conservativejoy]

You nailed it exactly. You can’t spend the way out of poverty. Cut off the food stamps and welfare and put them to wrk cleaning up their own cess pools.

[kearnyirish2]

The wealth transfer from makers to takers are the only thing keeping populations in those cities; the cities are being artificially prevented from dying the natural death an area with nothing to offer but high taxes and aging infrastructure should meet.

[sauropod]

+1