Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 463 Urban Hollowing and Hemp Leaf Passage
"The hollowing out of the city?!"

"Hollowing, well, it has a bit of an image!"

"Uncle Rob, there is a problem in your logic. If these people are allowed to occupy the downtown area, and the middle class and rich people with spending power will all flee the downtown area in the future, then is it necessary to rebuild the downtown area? "

After the poor, homeless, and drug addicts occupy the city center, they are definitely unwilling to work with them, based on the virtues of the wealthy American people.It has nothing to do with discrimination against poverty. As far as Carter himself is concerned, he doesn't want to live in such a place with no sense of security and devastated eyes.

Once these people with spending power leave, the city center cannot be said to be completely abolished.After all, these homeless people have to live.Some small convenience stores and small restaurants can still be opened, but large commercial buildings are basically out of the question.
Wealthy people flock to the outskirts of the city, so some large supermarkets targeting them naturally have to keep up.This has created a situation where a large number of taxpayers and a large number of taxpaying shops have all fled to the outskirts of the city, and it is speculated based on the divisional governance model of the US municipal police.
This tax-heavy suburb is definitely the one with the best policing, and then the area enters a virtuous cycle.The city center has entered a vicious circle
The weaker the law and order, the more rampant drug dealers, the more drug dealers, the more addicts, and the more garbage dumpers, the less tax will be collected here, and then the law and order will be worse, and drug dealers will be more rampant. Unlimited matryoshka
"It's not done step by step, Carter. There is no rush to govern a city. We divide various things into priorities and inferior ones. For example, the most serious problem facing Douglas now is to solve the problem of insufficient domestic demand. The core of the market economy is determined by the demand side, and the supply side rarely determines economic development.”

"Leave this group of people temporarily, and let their existence stimulate some domestic demand in a disguised way. To be honest, it is immoral and unfair to those tax-paying citizens. But it can solve the problem! For the future of this city, I have to do this!"

It was easy to say, but for Benjamin, who was doing this kind of thing for the first time, it was also a test of conscience.

To put it simply: did the residents of the once downtown area do something wrong? !
No!They are just working and living normally.As a result, a group of bullies came out of nowhere, and then the city government didn't do anything, or deliberately didn't do anything, forcing them to move out.In addition to the money for buying a new house, they also need to prepare tax expenses for two properties every year
It can be said that Benjamin's operation is to squeeze the surplus value of this group of Douglas, the first wave of people who became rich after the new crisis!
"These people move out of the city, which is a help to the expansion of New Douglas. They can also generate more taxes, and you can make more money! When the municipal taxes come up, then start to solve the problem of these homeless people, Moreover, the depression will not last forever. We have experienced so many crises in the United States, and we have even survived the severe depression in the [-]s and [-]s. This time we have no reason to resist it!"

"We will be able to solve it better when the economic environment picks up and the municipal tax collection becomes richer!"

After understanding Benjamin's logic, Carter's mood became more complicated
Once upon a time, I was still the angry youth who believed in "being an official and not making decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes".Whenever I see a little bit of injustice on the Internet, I pick up the keyboard and spray it wildly.

What kind of dog officials are corrupt, what kind of officials are protecting each other, what kind of officials have two mouths.
But now, after I have reached this level, I can communicate face-to-face with the operators and managers of Douglas, a small Georgia city, and even personally participate in the governance and construction of this city, especially when I have become a vested interest in it. After the group, Carter suddenly didn't know what he should do.

Yu Gong, Carter has to admit that Benjamin's logic is fine.He is not a corrupt official, he can even be called shrewd and capable. He clearly knows what the problem Douglas is facing.
At this point in time, nearly two-thirds of municipal revenues are being spent putting this group of people in jail, not to mention the hurdles of judicial sentencing.From an economic point of view, after the money is spent, the salaries of the rest of the municipal staff will not be enough. Will there be more unemployment or worse public order? !
In private, your own business can still make money from it!And still earn a lot!
For a flat, if you calculate a profit of 670 US dollars, you can earn [-] million!If loans are added, only this group of people can conservatively estimate that they can bring about [-] million US dollars in return.

How can this make me refuse? !
"Hey, let's talk about the drug problem! I know it's very difficult to implement a comprehensive drug ban in Douglas, but we can't do nothing! Especially the school, children are our future, and there must be no pollution here!"

"I know, I know. I will ask William to strengthen the campus police force later, but after school, the children are in the off-campus area. It is difficult for us to fully control this. Who made us happen to be on the drug channel in the United States?! There are too many messy people coming and going, especially those newcomers, the composition is too complicated!"

"Drug access? Isn't it over there in Mexico?"

In Carter's impression, the Mexican drug lord seemed quite famous.It is often heard that it is also from the US-Mexico border, illegal immigration, or drug smuggling.
Never heard of Georgia being a drug lane
"Mexico is mainly transported by land, and the drugs on the west coast are mainly transported to San Diego, California through Mexico. Then they are sent north from San Diego to Los Angeles, San Francisco and other places. And the drugs on the east coast, no, it should be said Most of the drugs that circulate in the United States are transported by sea, entering from the Tampa area of ​​Florida and the Miami area, and then transported by land to the north.”

"Sea transportation is naturally larger than land transportation. There are more cities and cities on the east coast than on the west coast. Miami, Orlando, Atlanta, Columbia, Charlotte, Washington, Baltimore, etc. There are too many! "

"If you think about our location, if the drugs in Florida are going out, can you bypass Georgia? To put it bluntly, set up a checkpoint on Route 23 next to our Douglas. If you can't find 10 tons of drugs in a month Poisonous, I will immediately go to Douglas Square and run naked three times!"

"How do you know these things so well?"

Carter's eyes fixed on the fellow suspiciously.

"What kind of secret is this? That is, those gentlemen in Washington are blind to it, and now Miami has become the capital of drug dealers! The big drug lord in Colombia, who seems to be called Pablo, has his own in Miami. A luxurious manor. His boss has already bought a manor in Miami, do you think his younger brothers will keep up? There are other Mexicans, Hondurans, etc.”

(End of this chapter)