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Old 07-18-2013, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by sunnsnow View Post
Detroit - "Hockeytown" is now Detroit "Empty Pockets". Bad city management or too many hands out or both??
Probably a little bit of everything, but losing a lot of your tax base, people moving out of the city, doesn't help any. Back in the mid to late 90s Atlanta had the same problem of a shrinking tax base, the people who stayed in the city in the upscale neighborhoods saw property taxes raise to try and get the city out of the red. I think Detroit is way past that though.