[BALTIMORESUN] With the U.S. Census Bureau reporting yet another year of population loss for the city, it doesn’t take an investigator to determine the causes.
The city’s scary record of 343 homicides in 2017 affirms the city’s well-known reputation as a dangerous place to live. Even if 2018 has fewer homicides, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to predict that this year’s homicide rate will be high. Until the city substantially reduces its homicide and other crimes rates, people will continue to view the city as dangerous and be reluctant to stay or move here.
The city’s outrageous property tax of $2.248 per $100 of a property’s assessed value is more than double of its surrounding jurisdictions: Baltimore County, $1.10, and Anne Arundel 90.7 cents. The city’s burdensome property tax on homeowners explains why the city has more renters than homeowners. The city’s high income tax is 3.2 percent, the maximum allowed by law. Baltimore County’s is 2.83 and Anna Arundel’s is 2.56. The city’s tax message is clear: Move here and pay higher taxes. People have figured out how to avoid the city’s taxes and still enjoy the city. They live in surrounding counties and take reasonably priced ridesharing services into the city.
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It should be spelled die-versity
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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I forget where I discovered this bit of information but it seems Baltimore is exporting its troubles elsewhere. Either Baltimore city or Maryland state are paying $2000 dollars to people who will relocate. Seems Western Maryland is a target spot. Crime has dramatically increased in Cumberland and along the creek from Midland to Westernport. Drug treatment clinics popping up also. New idea is a place to shoot up unhindered. Reminds me of the Opium dens of times past. Now with the new Heroine treatment with narcan(new nasal spray) doesn't work. I call this planned parenthood for adults.
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The city’s burdensome property tax on homeowners explains why the city has more renters than homeowners.
It explains nothing. Landlords don't adjust rents to incorporate property taxes? What an ignoramus.
Baltimore's (and St Louis) single most easily addressed problem is that it is not in a county. If they were returned to their respective counties problems would not be eliminated, but the surrounding affluent communities would have to be more involved and responsible for cleaning them up. As it is they have become literal ghettos.
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(sarcasm, sort of)
This ignores the useful aspects of the $hit#ole neighborhood, city, or country. It's a good place to keep people you don't want around you. And they don't seem to mind.
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Blue Cities - the 21st Century equivalent of Native American reservations. Big difference being its voluntary.
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One son used to clear titles after repos. They most complicated place to clear was Baltimore. Baltimore refuses to turn off gas, water and power connection fees (even though the actual stuff is turned off) so fees keep accumulating. They allow the ownership of a payment to be traded so multiple folk need to shake you down to clear up a title. This clearing can only be done one day a year at the courthouse. They don't accept check or credit card or debit card or line of credit. It must be done at the prescribed time with cash. Since he wasn't located in Baltimore is used to drive him bats until he hit upon a solution. Criminals were in the courthouse too. Criminals needed bail bondsmen. So he checked and a bail bondsman with enough money always on hand was just across the street. Bingo! He finally figured out how to clear the stupid Baltimore titles. He had his company make a deal with the bondsman and things went smoothly from then on.
Thanks to that Corbyn fellow currently heading the party, Labour has an embarrassing Jew-hatred problem.
[IsraelTimes] Former House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin calls for special party conference on anti-Jewish attitudes, a 'genuine problem' in the party
As the issue of anti-Semitism within the UK Labour Party returns to the headlines, a former Speaker of the House of Commons has called for a special party conference to discuss the issue, warning that it could cost the party the next election.
Michael Martin told The Guardian newspaper that he was "appalled" by the state of affairs, that he believed the party had a genuine problem with anti-Semitism and that he disagreed with those who said it was only being used as a tool to dislodge the party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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I don't see what the problem is. True, the British marginalized a few thousand Jews - who are a burden on British economy and society anyway. But in return they gained the manifold talents of millions of Muslims.
#2
Well, he deleted Facebook, I can get behind that. Everyone else should, too.
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If Labour actually made a move against anti-Semitism, they'd anger their Pakistani constituency. After all the work they've done to turn parts of Britain into third world shitholes, can they afford isolating their favorite constituents?
(Who else would provide them with young girls?)
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
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Anti-semitism is moving towards another peak. Given where the last one topped out, who's expecting less this time? Vile. Nasty. Half the people you know are that way.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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h/t Instapundit
Former President Barack Obama is reportedly feeling "relieved" that he isn't saddled with the "burden" of being commander in chief anymore, according to one of his ex-White House press secretaries.
"It’s obvious to most people who are watching that he is relieved to no longer be bearing the burden of the presidency," Josh Earnest told the Hill in an article published Monday.
#4
If he doesn't die from an overdose he is going to be around for many years, vocal as ever. Festering boil on the butt of humanity and enjoying every minute of it.
I was afraid that he might try to become a President for Life as so many of his heroes have, but, in the last few years I have realized that he was never the leader except in the same way that a hood ornament leads a car.
The motive force for the fearsome policies was the progressive deep state for whom Barry was only the trained seal in the circus. He was never a leader like Benito, Adolf, Mao, Fidel etc. Our wannabe dictators are more of the Byzantine Generals of the BGP.
Incessant in fighting with constantly changing alliances within the state seemed to allow no true leader to arise but also insured the arrival of a Trump.
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I personally think all of that weaponization of BLM, IRS, etc,. was part of a plan to make him President for life. He was trying to stir up a race war/civil war in which he could declare martial law. I also think his shenanigans with FISA, the FBI, DoJ, and the circuit courts was a step toward allowing him to suspend elections due to national emergency.
We dodged a bullet with that one and had the loathsome one been elected it would have reached full fruition.
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In the sense that obutthole both derailed swillary and greased the skids for the election of DJT, he is the gift that gives in many welcome and unexpected ways.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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HOW about we relieve him and his ILK of their pensions and PERKS? I would be relieved, GRATLY
#11
ALL loser, quitters, and failures are relieved when their time failing is over. He just fits the mold and we are also glad his slow motion train wreck is over.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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Carters failures laid the groundwork for the Reagan revolution.
Obama's failures laid the groundwork for the Trump revolution.
#13
Trump will be re-elected in 2020. In desperation, the dems will run Tammy Duckworth in 2024. In her place, a trans thing (D) will be elected because by then all the leftwing media will be all the way around the bend and the regrettably large portion of the electorate that uses CNN - MSNBC - NYT - The Atlantic - The View - People Magazine in place of a brain will be around the bend too.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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"Obama relieved to no longer be president"
So are we all.
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"Me too"...
AlanC has the witty perspective. Both funny and wise.
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[Free Beacon] The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus chairwoman Virgie Rollins said Saturday that she used to be a member of the Black Panther Party.
DNC vice chairman Keith Ellison was listening and appeared to notice the Republican tracker who was secretly taping the conversation. About a minute after Rollins first mentioned the Black Panthers, Ellison seems to look directly at the tracker and began whispering with someone next to him, but before the video cut off, it captured Rollins’ comments.
"I’m a former Black Panther," Rollins said. "And when we talked about the movement, as a former Black Panther with Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver, it was important for us to make people understand that it was about the movement for us, educating us."
She touted the group’s community work, including teaching and helping to feed the poor. She also invoked Martin Luther King, Jr., even though the civil rights leader took issue with the Black Panthers’ movement.
"Mass incarceration did not just happen in Republican hands," she said, adding a range of other issues including police brutality and charter schools.
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So what Sen. Robert Carlyle Byrd D (W-Va.) used to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan. People change and we shouldn't hold their past mistakes against them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[BALTIMORESUN] With the U.S. Census Bureau reporting yet another year of population loss for the city, it doesn’t take an investigator to determine the causes.
[Free Beacon] The Democratic National Committee’s Black Caucus chairwoman Virgie Rollins said Saturday that she used to be a member of the Black Panther Party.
