re: #62 Wile E. Wonka

Yup. That was kind of my point, really. Far as I can tell, the ills of Detroit can be laid squarely at the feet of its crushing feudalist inequality. What middle class it still had (after the whole Rust Belt decline) has all gone away, leaving only workers who can’t find work and aristocrats who won’t provide any.

There are still jobs at the auto companies, but most of these are located in the suburbs (Dearborn, Warren) and the workers who work there also live in the suburbs and just drive through the city on their way to and from work.

People who live in the suburbs but work inside the Detroit city limits have to pay city tax, which sucks, but how else is the city supposed to raise revenue except by taxing people who can afford to pay taxes?

I get calls from GM recruiters all the time for jobs that are located at the GM headquarters, but they can’t offer more money than I’m already making, without the city tax because I work in Dearborn.