Posted on 08/13/2012 10:39:25 AM PDT by Kukai
Political experts left and right agree: the coming election will be decided by America’s suburbanites. From Florida to Virginia on across the country, in every battleground state, they are the key demographic. All of which raises a question that has not been considered as yet, and ought to be: is President Obama’s re-election in the suburbanites’ interest? The answer emphatically is no.
As many Americans do not know, in the eyes of the leftist community organizers who trained Obama, suburbs are instruments of bigotry and greed — a way of selfishly refusing to share tax money with the urban poor. Obama adopted this view early on, and he has never wavered from this ideological commitment, as a review of his actions in office goes to show.
President Obama’s plans for a second-term include an initiative to systematically redistribute the wealth of America’s suburbs to the cities. It’s a transformative idea, and deserves to be fully aired before the election. But like a lot of his major progressive policy innovations, Obama has advanced this one stealthily–mostly through rule-making, appointment, and vague directives. Obama has worked on this project in collaboration with Mike Kruglik, one of his original community organizing mentors. Kruglik’s new group, Building One America, advocates “regional tax-base sharing,” a practice by which suburban tax money is directly redistributed to nearby cities and less-well-off “inner-ring” suburbs. Kruglik’s group also favors a raft of policies designed to coerce people out of their cars and force suburbanites (with their tax money) back into densely packed cities. ...
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The Illinos Legislature is attempting to do this now with the cost of teachers pensions. Things like the Regional Transit Authority are also part of this incremental strategy.
Punish success; reward failure. Welcome to the USSR.
So that would explain why I heard the Illinois teacher’s union advertising on WGN radio during the Cubs game yesterday.
Barak Ubama enslaved the White Devil to Eric Holder's people.
That would make a good tagline.
Won’t fit.
Sharing the prosperity, I think he is calling it today...same old stealing the prosperity to give to the takers like it always has been.....
I kinda figured it wouldn’t. Still, it would make a good tagline...
They'll tell you that it is intended to be more economical by providing city services in more compact areas, but I think it's really a lot more about maps like this one from the 2000 election:
Despite the 'no mandate' title, this map is all about the Urban vs. non-urban areas. Democrats believe that if everybody lives in a city, they will work alive, play alike, educate alike, and vote alike.
Kurtz has it backwards. For over 4 decades cities have been robbed to subsidize the building out of suburbs.
The suburban counties are what you would call “donor communities” because they will always be a net source of revenue but never receive back anything of value.
They did the same thing here in Central Indiana to finance Lucas Oil Stadium, some people are promoting the same thing to finance regional mass transit.
Ironically, it was Indianapolis mayor Dick Lugar who instituted something like this in the late 1960’s with “Unigov,” which merged most of suburban Marion County with the City of Indianapolis under a city-county form of government. The suburbs hated it, but it went through anyway. The benefit was the Republican suburbs got to vote for mayor, and since 1970 Indianapolis is one of few larger cities that has had a Republican mayor, and has historically been fiscally sound.
What I suspect in most regional taxing schemes now is that the taxation will not go with the commensurate representation, and the democrat power structures of the big cities will never allow the doughnut communities to vote on their jobs. But they do want their money.
And even though the Cubs still suck, I do like listening to Pat Hughes and Keith Moreland on WGN while I do yard work. I will probably take my son to a game next month because seats will be available, and Wrigley Field is always Wrigley Field.
If I hear one more time that we're not paying our "fair share" I'm going to hurt someone. Well over 2/3 of my property taxes are specifically marked for public sector leech pensions. And it's not just teachers. It's cops, firemen, library district workers, water district workers, County workers, municipal workers, etc, etc.
Memphis, Tenn. did or is trying to do the same by closing city school system and gobbling up rest of county systems and then taking over as major player.
The biggest problem with suburbs for dems is that people who aren't crowed into small spaces and living on top of each other - vote Republican.
The stuff about 'greed' is for the sake of their useful idiots in the MSM.
I can remember a comment from the 2008 campaign.
A staffer asks Obama about making appearances in ‘the suburbs’.
Obama emphatically answers :”NO”.”I HATE the suburbs.”
IMO, Obama hates America.
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