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Even worse, the remaining large businesses then threatened to leave as well if Detroit didn't give them steep tax breaks, further eroding its revenue.?
 
Even worse, the remaining large businesses then threatened to leave as well if Detroit didn't give them steep tax breaks, further eroding its revenue.?
 
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* {{wikipedia}}
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* {{conservapedia}} "...due to mismanagement, became so beholden to liberal interests that industry failed, for the most part."
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* {{dkosopedia}} (site down on 2014-03-20; can't verify page)
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* [http://goobingdetroit.tumblr.com/ GooBing Detroit]: Google Street View pictures of Detroit neighborhood from 2009-2012, showing the transition from habitation to ruin
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* '''2014-03-20''' [http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/michigan-short-changed-detroit-millions Michigan Short-Changed Detroit By Millions] "Instead of sharing sales tax revenue properly, Michigan kept millions intended for Detroit, effectively bankrupting the city."
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* '''2013-12-09''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LNtBC1cLk How Wall Street Bankrupted Detroit] (video: RT interview with [[Richard Wolff]])
 
* '''2013-07-21''' [http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/21/detroit-sinks-deeper-hell-faces-wing-utopian-fantasies.html Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies]
 
* '''2013-07-21''' [http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/21/detroit-sinks-deeper-hell-faces-wing-utopian-fantasies.html Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies]

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Economic Troubles

There is a widely-repeated right-wing claim that Detroit's economic problems and subsequent bankruptcy were due to excessive spending on social programs; this is false.

Detroit was heavily dependent on its automobile manufacturing industry, which largely grew up there. When management styles changed starting in the 1980s to a more aggressively profit-driven mode, the companies began moving jobs from Detroit to other locations -- decimating Detroit's economy.

Even worse, the remaining large businesses then threatened to leave as well if Detroit didn't give them steep tax breaks, further eroding its revenue.?

Links

Reference

  • Wikipedia
  • ConservapediaConservapedia is an unreliable source. "...due to mismanagement, became so beholden to liberal interests that industry failed, for the most part."
  • dKosopedia (site down on 2014-03-20; can't verify page)

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