What Do People Living In Cities Run By Democrats Have To Lose?
This was Trump’s pitch to voters of inner cities whose lousy schools, out of control crime, and high taxes keep driving people out. What have the “progressive” Democrats done for you?
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The Census Bureau just released the head count for cities in 2020. Here are the largest cities in the United States that lost population over last decade.
Detroit -6.4% -46,000
Baltimore -5.6% -35,000
Long Beach -1.7% -8,000
Milwaukee -1.0% -6,000
Chicago -0.7% -20,000
The cities above are extraordinarily high city-state tax rates, rioting, and failing schools among other economic problems.
The cities with population gains of 20% or more were:
Seattle +26% +150,000
Fort Worth +24% +179,000
Austin +23% +189,000
Denver +22% +133,000
Charlotte +22% +162,000
Tampa +21% +70,000
Mesa +20% +87,000
These are cities above (with the exception of Denver) that impose relatively low taxes. Four of them: Seattle, Fort Worth, Austin, and Tampa have no state or local income tax.
Why is this so hard for progressives to comprehend?
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Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the impact of Joe Biden’s myriad budget busters already passed or in the works.
If everything that Biden has proposed were to be approved by Congress, the national debt would climb by a cool $22 trillion over the next decade. That’s a $7.6 trillion increase in the debt path that he inherited. And that’s with COVID over!
Here’s how the numbers stack up:
The so-called stimulus plan passed in February adds $2.1 trillion of debt spending.
Bidens first formal budget proposal adds another $665 billion for programs like more funding of the IRS, EPA, foreign aid, the Education Department plus more.
San Francisco is losing its 17th Walgreens drug store this week.
The reason: Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere.
The SF Chronicle recently asked a Walgreen’s clerk why the shelves were near-empty. He said, “Go ask the people in the alleys, they have it all.”
Contributing to the crime spree: a new law which lowers penalties for thefts under $950 as well as a failure to fully prosecute organized crime rings behind much of the theft.
Term limits mean that New York City will finally be rid of the haplessly incompetent Bill de Blasio at the end to this year. Election Day is June 22 with the Democratic primary. The city’s declining quality of life is emerging as the biggest issue.
Crime rate is rising for the first time since the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations cleaned up the city. For the month of April, the overall index of crime is up 30%, compared with a year ago. Grand larceny is up 66%, felony assault up 36% and shootings have increased 156%.
Half the city's Democratic primary voters rate “public safety and crime rates” as one of their top two priorities. Only 18% of New Yorkers want to see less police presence in their neighborhoods.
In NYC, 80,000 city employees will return this week. They’ve had a year long paid vacation, it’s time.
But city employee unions have learned something from teacher unions, who are masters in delay and exaggerated safety concerns.
The union demand is for no return to work until at least September, giving everyone a version of the summer vacation teachers have.
Over the weekend, hundreds of union members gathered outside City Hall to protest any return to work. "We as city workers are concerned that the mayor's hasty return to office planning is all risk and no reward," one speaker shouted. Um, isn’t a paycheck a reward?
There is something highly suspicious about the revised 2020 Census Bureau state population data which determines which states pick up & which states lose seats in House. Suddenly there are 2.5 mil more residents of blue states, & 500k fewer residents of red states than estimated.
These are the giant differences between the official 2020 Census count and the December, 2020 estimate. Nearly all of the big unexpected population gains were in blue states, and most of the unexpected population losses were in red states. Coincidence?
The New York population number was revised UPWARD by some 850,000 people. Implausibly, that is double the combined population of Buffalo and Rochester. During COVID hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers LEFT the Empire State.