I realize that food stamps are not a popular thing, but Michigan, especially Detroit, is circling the drain. Homes are selling for as little as $1 in some neighborhoods. Homes that people purchased 20-30 years ago to retire in, have very little possibility of selling in the economy. Whole blocks of homes are empty, whole blocks of businesses are boarded up.
You can look at a lot of reasons. Failure of the auto industry to adapt, failure of the state of Michigan to change ahead of the oncoming change in the industries, unions failing to see what was happening; you name it, it happened.
Michigan can’t keep this up for long. At some point, push is going to come to shove. The Gov is hoping that Michigan will attract new businesses. Don’t really see that, as the new manufacturing plants are being built in places like South Carolina, Texas, etc.
Lowering the corporate taxes would help
As the displaced liberals flee the chaos they created only to recreate it in SC and TX, where will the jobs go next?
And if Michigan, especially Detroit, is circling the drain, might be best to flush it down. I grew up in depressed, post-hardwood-boom Appalachia. The population hereabouts is about one-quarter what it was then. I live within a half-hour’s drive of three different lumber ghost towns. Our unofficial county motto is “The stupid ones stay.” If Detroit dies, will many mourn?
Michigan was in the final two locations to get a Volkswagen plant but Chattanooga, Tennessee got it. I bet it had something to do with taxes and unions.