"On Dec. 19, the Greensboro City Council is scheduled to vote on spending $56 million to build two new parking garages to support the building of new downtown hotels. If our recent experience with the downtown performing arts center is any indication, the actual costs to the taxpayers will probably be doubled before the projects are finished.
...while the council continues this long, failed policy of corporate welfare and giveaways to wealthy developers, according to city-data.com the poverty rate in Greensboro is 28.4 percent with some neighborhoods as high as 40 percent.
It hasn’t worked so far. Why should we think it will work this time?
If I told you I know a better way, would you want to hear it? Would anyone?
Billy Jones
Greensboro
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/in-a-high-poverty-city-why-give-to-the-rich/article_11d1f7d1-bb41-5e4a-86fb-13ad697c87b6.html
...while the council continues this long, failed policy of corporate welfare and giveaways to wealthy developers, according to city-data.com the poverty rate in Greensboro is 28.4 percent with some neighborhoods as high as 40 percent.
It hasn’t worked so far. Why should we think it will work this time?
If I told you I know a better way, would you want to hear it? Would anyone?
Billy Jones
Greensboro
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/in-a-high-poverty-city-why-give-to-the-rich/article_11d1f7d1-bb41-5e4a-86fb-13ad697c87b6.html
