'Tax Broke' Baltimore's Dirty Secret | Rattling the Bars
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2022
- The new documentary 'Tax Broke' explores how city tax subsidies pushed in the name of economic development transferred taxpayer money into the pockets of the rich while leaving Baltimore no better off.
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Same way in Anchorage. Every year the buildings get bigger and the actual economy gets worse. Crime is unbelievable. I do find it ironic these same companies like Walmart who gutted out the local economy now suffer from massive amounts of theft as the amount of destitute and addicted has created an unseen expense.
You can’t say they suffer. They have business insurance that covers theft so it don’t really matter to them the petty amount of stuff that get stolen compared to how much people buy.
@@cherrelleg8276 Businesses shut down when they can no longer get insurance. Then all that is left is a burned out hulk of a city with high property taxes and no social services.
Just an FYI, Randy Newman wrote the song, "Baltimore" sung by Nina Simone.
It is the eternal struggle between two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. It is the same spirit that says 'you toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it.' No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation, and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
-- Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln-Douglas debates, October 15, 1858)
This whole time I thought it was blue crabs versus soft shell crabs or red crabs
Mansa Musa, well done... I look forward to the documentary... keep up the great work and thank you for being so active and caring about Baltimore. 👍🏽💌✌🏽
God help you!!!
How can i watch this documentary online? I don’t live in Baltimore (or even US)
Great discussion as usual from RNW. Honest analysis from Mr. Janis in his interrogation of Building Developers. Speaking from Toronto, Canada, we likewise struggle with an increasing homeless crisis, unaffordable housing, and Conservative Provincial and City governments who seem hell-bent on putting more Tax Dollars into the hands of already wealthy developers, falsely claiming this going to help alleviate the housing shortage problems, create jobs, etc. We see a lot of "Luxury" condos going up rather than Affordable / Public Housing.
I would like to add that Baltimore's biggest problem remains its ongoing struggle(s) with systemic Racism. Sorry, but I must say it. Like Buffalo and Detroit, once that ability to legally segregate neighbours ended, it appears all these cities went Bust and fell into decay. The dominant group was determined that their Tax dollars would never support any Black initiatives or progress, economically or residentially. Instead, tax dollars would be funneled to the Police Services.
I concur with your comments here. This phenomena seems to be exemplary in nearly all major U.S. cities, where now most areas that were once highly populated by native Blacks are being supplanted by newer immigrant groups. Not trying to sound pessimistic, but this particular trend will not be ending anytime soon. RE developers + politicians are a powerful match in which to contend.
Outstanding interview. I'm looking forward to watching the documentary. The American neo-liberal system (inverted socialism) is wholly unsustainable. Its collapse will be swift and terrible.
Yea, it’s watching Rome fall.
Good Lord... Served 48 years
Nobody wants to keep putting money into these surrounding neighborhoods and they don't stay kept up
As soon as i seen Jayne Miller … i knew this was the real deal … Jayne don’t mess around … if you’re a lifetime Baltimorean (not a Canton , Fed Hill, Lower Fells, Locus Point, Hampden or JHU transplant or gentrifier) you know she has been doing stuff like this since the late 80s for Channel 11 here in Bmore
She's an ambulance chaser.
@@Nate_Gray stop with bs dude … she held political figures accountable … something that Project Baltimore continues to do … I wonder if your comment has a touch of misogyny in it 💯
Corruption is rampant. Everybody wants a piece of the pie.
Well said!
Great discussion! I would love to answer many questions as the city’s investor and on the behalf of developers.
Why not answer those questions right now?
Lying and stealing are the two things capitalism does best. Americans have lost sight sight of or been blinded to, the plain facts that are right in front of them. Commercial development does not benefit the community at large and never has. Even the jobs it creates in the literal building are temporary, while the long term revenues generated are horded at best and most commonly completely removed from the local economy.
Every public property given over or sold to private enterprise is a dead loss to the public. Every sports stadium funded and built with taxpayer money is a transfer of public wealth into private hands, and publicly funded commercial spaces are no different.
This system forces communities from to states to municipalities into a race to the bottom where even the eventual "winners" inevitably lose.
Is it not same ole Romans that overtook England and others ... !?!?
@detroit retro gamer drg313 Hell yes. Detroit, and Michigan itself, are one of the clearest examples of this scheme in action.
@@rickb3650 According to Wikipedia:
Robber baron is a derogatory term of social criticism originally applied to certain wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine. By the late 19th century, the term was typically applied to businessmen who purportedly used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2] These practices included exerting control over natural resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors.[2] The term combines the sense of criminal ("robber") and illegitimate aristocracy (a baron is an illegitimate role in a republic).[3]
@@bradleybriggs That's right, we've been conned right back to the 19th century, and it's been made possible by simply destroying education and replacing it with fantasies and lies of how things used to be.
It seems like no one knows how anything works anymore and finding someone that is merely competent at doing their job, it's like finding a treasure.
@@rickb3650 Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I'm apt to think that there are three kinds of mind-sets that enable all this to go on, and they relate to, or reinforce your comments. Me, you, whomever -- I'm either ignorant, in denial, or in on it.
That is, I'm either ill-informed for whatever reason, poor education, lack of information available in the public domain, lack of lived-life experience, or possibly, I'm a bit slow. Alternatively, it could be the case that deep down, I feel what's really going on however, confronting this truth is simply too stressful, potentially ego bruising, or simply too horrific a thought to entertain comfortably and may even require civic action that would be harmful to my career. Therefore, I ignore the demonstrated reality in favor of the "fantasies" of which you write.
And so, we have arrived at the culprits, those lovely individuals who know full-well what's going on and are the actors cracking-on with its implementation. Using mostly gaslighting to manipulate the ignorant and spellbound, these fine upstanding members of the community control information by way of compartmentalization whereby We the People are kept in our place -- ignorant, or in denial.
The so called "unintended consequences" are never unintended at all. Instead, outcomes are practically near perfect every time. Witness the case studied in the documentary that is the subject of this video.
May I suggest to you, if you are not already familiar with, the work of Michael Parenti.
Unfortunately, his website, michaelparenti (dot) org is blocked in this country, or has been hacked however, you may find his books and lectures are available.
Keep up the good work 👏 🙌
I tried to follow along as best as I could, but this is just great to me. TIFS? Bonds? But for? Credits? Debt service, enterprise owned tax credit, PILOT? So what exactly is going on here and what is this “dirty secret“?
When is the documentary available? Ge some Press and start some Discussion groups!
Logan County Oklahoma used a TIF to get a much needed public sewer line under I-35 & Hwy 33. Ask the people at the Golden Chick/Travel Plaza whether it was worth it. They employ many Langston Univ students. They have excellent affordable chicken and donate a lot of chicken to Lunch on Noble for the needy. But, only because of the TIF sewer line.
Is the actual documentary available anywhere yet?
I can’t wait to watch the documentary and see the excellent investigative reporting.
Take care of public safety and the city won't have to give away the kitchen sink for development. BTW, you don't have to directly benefit from a development, if the city gets better as a whole, then it is a success.
How can I get a copy or stream the actual documentary?
What is an American political prisoner such as Mr. Mansa Munsa? I mean no disrespect when asking this question just looking to learn. Plus I love this channel
The bus leaves every 30 minutes/just get the hell out
Where are they going to go? I live 45 mins north of the city. Rent has become unsustainable for most people in my area. The thought of actually purchasing a home is a distant memory. I don’t live in a particularly nice area and our rents and mortgages are 2-4 times more expensive then similar sized properties in the city. Not only that, it’s very rural here and without a reliable vehicle of your own, it’s simply impossible to live. We are all being priced out of existence.
Where is the Doc? Where can you buy it?
We will post it soon on the website
@@therealnews awesome...
Great work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💯
I luv my city The good and the bad❤❤
The same thing has happened in every city I've lived in: Schenectady/Albany/Troy NY. Awful.
Well, you must start somewhere. City must revamp it's housing program
Miller is a pitbull when it comes to investigative journalism. I've seen hundreds of construction projects in Baltimore and 90% of the workers are from south of the border.
Port covington is the most successful sub community in Baltimore. I believe the future is self taxed jurisdictions.
I like jane Miller, she does her investigation, she is on point
Baltimore, I love you like I love an abusive parent.
Yet with this as common knowledge no riots at city hall
There doing it to Portland now.
Qui Bonó. Follow the money.
Corporate capitolism\crony capitalism is not free capitalism. It's not what the founders created. It's what the British legal system overthrew.
Business won't change things, politics won't change things and money won't change things. People change things, but first... people have to change... and money can't be the incentive, or you'll just repeat the "have and have nots" cycle. This isn't anything exclusive to Baltimore, the East Coast, the U.S., the West or the last century. The heart of all these issues, as I see it, is endemic to the human race. The bible says it's a spiritual problem and that God has provided the bridge between the problem and the solution, only it has to be accessed person by person. There is no "passing of the buck" to someone other than self. The bible says it won't renovate the earth but it prepares all those who join the Kingdom for the renovation God has promised.
So, there you have it. It's not about Baltimore as a city, it's about the human race. The city starts with people and the people are you and me. If the change is not beginning in us... all the talk and planning is posturing, passing the buck or delusion.
Theoretically, you don't even need the politicians, the corporations or their money. The population itself has the natural ability (but not the spiritual, as a whole) to completely change the face of the city or any other location. And we all know that any other change, apart from the population, will only be temporary and will devolve into yet another dysfunctional situation, as is referenced in this video. Businesses now figure that into their business model and projections to protect themselves from the eventual downturn.
If one doesn't believe in the eternal, spiritual or the transcendent none of this will matter. They will continue to strive towards a utopia that will never come but which will either bulldoze those underneath its attempted construction or bankrupt those who corporately invest in it. There is no refuge or redemption in the current civilizational model.
Way Down In the Hole
We will replace it with something worse.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW....THE SHELL GAME CONTINUE....."THE BLACK VETERAN FOR JUSTICE". All over the country.
It's called capitalism of course capitalism works out wonderful for some but it works out horribly for others it's not democratic it's not fair or it's not equal
The myth of capitalism. In reality we have a system of inverted socialism, where workers are subsidizing the insatiable appetites of wealthy developers and corporations, who use tax incentives and bailouts for things like stock buybacks which make executives richer. There is no actual capitalism. If there were, banks would have been allowed to fail and monopolies would be broken up.
@@traceysheneman8652 I would agree with that
Life's not fair tho. The lame gazelle gets eaten by the lion. That strengthens the gene pool
@@Nate_Gray What a bright and insightful response!
@@dlwseattle it's unrealistic to believe that every single organism is going to be successful. That's just not what all of evolution is based on. Some organism are ill suited for survival and as a result die off. That's true for business. It's true for people. I'm not arguing its pleasant. But it is reality.
So, straight away, the host recites that Baltimore is where "the people hide their faces And they hide their eyes 'Cause the city's dyin', And they don't know why." Then they complain that tax money is being used to bring in something other than more violence, murder, squalor, unemployment, into a corpse of a city. The host admits that the Inner Harbor was once "cutthroat alley", where you were sure to be killed if you went there. Now it is a safe, prosperous, tourist area, but I guess all three guests prefer it the old way. Jane: people have to be bribed to invest in wretched Baltimore. Believe me, you are a complete fool if you don't think Mayor Bowser isn't in a full sprint to gentrify the entire district of Columbia, exactly how Baltimore is paying for development here. Do you think she believes enabling multiple generations of self-inflicted dysfunction, street violence, urban decay, is the way to bring the area forward? In America, there are always winners and losers, but according to the Nina Simone song Baltimore has been in a death spiral for generations, and the losers were the inhabitants of black neighborhoods.
Democrat run.