“But the initial response suggested it would be no easy sell. Why should they be punished for the city’s financial missteps over the years, some retirees asked? Why not keep raising taxes instead?”
Missteps like the pensions that is bankrupting the city?
And way to offer a solution. “Raise taxes”?
No wonder they are govt. workers.
So OK, raise taxes
That’s sure to generate all the revenue they need for their pensions and benefits, right?
But wait- until these retirees try to sell their homes to retire to Florida or move to a nursing home, and realize that their community has become a ghost town, most of the working class abandoned their underwater homes and failing businesses and fled to Texas, including their own children and granchildren
Unfortunately this is probably what has to happen to stop this cycle. Clean out the population, eliminate the taxpayers as they vote with feet, starve the tax eaters, then (maybe) start again