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Wednesday, August 31, 2005


Detroit Continues to Implode.
Detroit News columnist and fellow blogger George Bullard notes that Detroit is officially the poorest city in the country.

Inept city governance, a leading industry that has taken a long time to global competition, and many other factors contribute to a state where one in of every three city residents lives below the federal poverty level.

"Meanwhile," Bullard says, "taxes remain high, assuring that more business will split for more friendly climes."

Taxes, yes, but also a barely functioning education system in the death grip of a teachers union, blocks and blocks of abandoned buildings ... the list goes on.

"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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