Posted on 03/08/2011 2:27:50 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
I’ve heard that Camden is the extreme, in that, almost all of the middle class and almost all businesses moved out years ago. So the only people left are the very poor, the thugs, gang members, and other assorted people with social pathologies. How can Camden, or any city, survive when everyone who is productive has moved on???? With no tax base and no taxpayers, that’s a recipe for disaster. The pictures tell a sad story.
The “tax base” becomes the county, state, and fed government. These places also have a lot of illegal aliens, since without them the school district and apartment rentals such as they are would completely dry up. Other cities in NJ have laid off polie as well (Newark, Jersey City, Paterson); this doesn’t just reflect an exodus of taxpayers and corporations, but also the fact that a lot of illegals live in these places. They are invisible in terms of the census, they are no W-2s issued for those that work, and they contribute nothing to the tax base by stacking in apartments or simply living in undeclared (illegal, untaxed) apartments.
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