For a good look at what Unions and Socialism can do to a city, you have only to look at Detroit. Steven Crowder takes us on a tour:
The Unions negotiate people's salary to the $75/hr range (including all the benefits), companies pull out and relocate, the state raises taxes to compensate for the lost corporate revenues, people pull out and relocate to find jobs, crime rate soars, more people leave.
If the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan would cut personal taxes and really cut business taxes a lot (maybe offer six years of no taxes to businesses that start up or move into the state and then greatly reduced taxes thereafter), if they made education a priority instead of a union sinecure for the teachers, they might be able to turn this around. Somehow, I don't see this happening anytime soon -- they are too entrenched in the Democrat entitlement mentality...
Hat tip to Doc Mercury at Maggie's Farm for the link.
Posted by DaveH at December 23, 2009 7:24 PM