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In reply to the discussion: Mayor abruptly slashes wages to minimum for Scranton City Workers [View all]TBF
(31,922 posts)Anytime we push things down to the state/local level we have problems with differing tax bases and local biases. Just like the health care situation - if you nationalize something you can spread the risk so to speak (spread the cost).
To be clear as well, I am not the authoritarian sort. I would like to see workers owning and running the means of production (by committee - that sort of thing) and a lot of input from citizens via town meetings and voting as to how they think things should be run. Organized and funded on a national level, in other words, with local participation/input from those involved.
ETA = I detailed in a post below how I would do it. Bail-out time - just like a weather emergency. Scranton is considered a fiscal disaster and fed money gets pumped in. We pay for it by raising taxes - plenty of billionaires in this country. They can afford it. And we do it today.