PolicyGuy

Friday, May 27, 2005


All This Crime, and High Taxes, Too!
Want another reason why big cities need to change their way of governing? The Detroit News finds that would-be residents who are willing to tolerate substandard services and blocks of devastated real estate must also be able and willing to fork over a large amount of money in taxes--higher sum than that extracted by some of the city's more attractive suburbs.

Says the News: "A Detroiter with a newly purchased $200,000 home will pay about $6,700 in property taxes. By comparison, a $200,000 home in Rochester has a local tax bill of $3,367, or in Utica that homeowner would pay $3,933 a year."

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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