The New York Times' Thomas B. Edsall writes that city mayors are enacting the liberal agenda at the local level. NYC's df Blasio is the best-known example.
What Edsall overlooks is that these policies drive away the employers upon whom such programs rely for tax revenue funding. Does the mayor of Plano, Texas, have these ambitions? I'm certain Toyota has received assurances nothing of the sort is in the offing for Plano, it's new North America corporate home.
Meanwhile Torrance, CA, which Toyota is leaving, will have to trim expenditures as its tax revenues fall. Cities normally have to balance budgets, live within their means.
