The city of Detroit doesn't have to remain an incorporated city

[RB TexLa]

Unincorporate or combine government with their parish/county.



Baton Rouge/East Baton Rouge Parish

Miami-Dade County

[former9thward]

1. Wayne county probably does not want them.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Miami is incorporated and has its own city government

It is true, like other older cities (such as St. Louis) the actual city population is dwarfed by the surrounding population in Dade county and sureounding counties.

Unincorporating/dissolving the city of Detroit is the stupidest thing I've ever heard regarding this fiscal crisis.

[Festivito]

3. We currently have a good mayor and lousy county executive.

It's the debt. Rather it's the setup of too much debt by the banks so they can privatize privatize privatize with more socialism for themselves, the rich.

Understand, we have no Republicans. Instead we have people with Republican ideology running well funded campaigns as Democrats. They win. We get set up for disaster capitalism.

[HiPointDem]

4. +1. and i'd bet some portion of that debt is pure fraud. 60% of what's wrong with detroit

can be traced to the banks, starting with redlining & loans for white people to move to the suburbs 50 years back.

the other 40% can be traced to disinvestment by big corporate actors, starting with ford creating new cities so he didn't have to pay taxes.

[Festivito]

5. Plus so much more. eom

[hack89]

6. Who would want to combine with them?

not until they get their financial mess squared away.

[hobbit709]

7. And doing that would help the situation how?

[MattBaggins]

8. This is the RBtexla show

Do not hold your breath waiting for an explanation.