Today, they succeed because they are subsidized by federal and state dollars. Consequently, federal and state taxpayers help reduce taxes on those living in the city.
If the federal and red state governments end ALL subsidies to corrupt blue cities, you will eventually see an exodus of city taxpayers; the leaches will remain. Only then will these corrupt blue cities fail.
Sadly, republicans (federal and state) have not been willing to end subsidizing these corrupt blue cities.
The subsidizing will end. It has to or we will go broke. When there are no more wealthy and no more middle income taxpayers in those cities, and no more pork for the socialists, they will scatter. Imho.
“If the federal and red state governments end ALL subsidies to corrupt blue cities, you will eventually see an exodus of city taxpayers; the leaches will remain. Only then will these corrupt blue cities fail.”
State capitols could be moved every ten years to a ‘new’ city.
Welcome to New Austin I, Governor Abbott.
“If the federal and red state governments end ALL subsidies to corrupt blue cities, you will eventually see an exodus of city taxpayers; the leaches will remain. Only then will these corrupt blue cities fail.”
You need to pop the real estate bubbles by closing off their airspace below 5,000 feet, in NYC’s case, to two counties out (Nassau & Suffolk, Westchester & Fairfield & Putnam, etc.)
Most states could create new capital cities every ten years. These would be quality cities with amenities, and affordable housing.
For health care:
1. break most hospitals into two
2. convert smaller hospitals into real estate leasing entities
3. separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers
4. create interstate drug plans that don’t have to cover every drug, only most (~80% or more) in all important types (large volume recombinant, small volume recombinant, breakthroughs under patent, etc.)
5. have drug patents limited by above manufacturing cost revenue and not by time
6. require Kirchoff patent collapse to a single entity to get FDA marketing approval
For SNAP, cap at $2/day/person, paid in daily to eliminate “food insecurity”
For Obamaphones, hang up on the program.