Month: March 2020
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, by Charles Marohn Jr.
Post WW II single family subdivisions have proved a fiscal disaster. At first, they generated substantial tax revenues, making cities eager to encourage and subsidize more of them by extending utilities. But because all the utilities and houses in a subdivision were built at the same time, they all aged at the same rate. After…
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The Poverty Industry: How state and local service agencies scam both the federal government and their intended beneficiaries
In The Poverty Industry, Daniel L. Hatcher explains how the austerity following the 2008 financial crisis has induced state and local public service agencies to scam both the federal government and their intended beneficiaries.