{"224471":{"#nid":"224471","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Heartland Institute Experts React to Detroit Bankruptcy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/ries\u0022\u003EChristine Ries\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eprofessor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Economics, \u003C\/strong\u003Eprovided commentary on the city of Detroit filing for bankruptcy in the past week: \u0026nbsp;\u201cThose of us who work more closely on state and local economic and reform issues know that Detroit is the first of many. Nearly all reform controversies come down to taxpayers versus unions \u2013 especially public sector unions. In my areas of engagement, educational reform and tax reform, all of the well-funded opposition to reform comes from various public-sector employees\u2019 unions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe are relatively successful in keeping the train on the rails in Georgia and attract population and companies from states and cities who are failing in the taxpayer\/unions battle. But, the ultimate question is whether states are really free to be laboratories of democracies. Will the failing cities and states be deemed \u2018too big to fail.\u2019 I\u2019ll be watching in the next weeks and months for federal government backdoor-bailouts of Detroit. Will the teachers, state government employees and taxpayers of Georgia and other disciplined and frugal states, eventually pay for the less-disciplined in Detroit\u2026.and those that follow?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe White House response? Not promising. \u0026nbsp;\u0027While leaders on the ground in Michigan and the city\u2019s creditors understand that they must find a solution to Detroit\u2019s serious financial challenge, we remain committed to continuing our strong partnership with Detroit as it works to recover and revitalize and maintain its status as one of America\u2019s great cities,\u0027 said Amy Brundage, a White House spokeswoman. This means Georgians pay.\u201d \u0026nbsp;Source: \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/blog.heartland.org\/2013\/07\/heartland-institute-experts-react-to-detroit-bankruptcy\/?utm_source=rss\u0026amp;utm_medium=rss\u0026amp;utm_campaign=heartland-institute-experts-react-to-detroit-bankruptcy\u0022\u003ESomewhat Reasonable\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EJuly 19, 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27848","created_gmt":"2013-07-24 09:56:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:35","author":"Claire Woodring","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Emily Saccuzzo","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blog.heartland.org\/2013\/07\/heartland-institute-experts-react-to-detroit-bankruptcy\/?utm_source=rss\u0026utm_medium=rss\u0026utm_campaign=heartland-institute-experts-react-to-detroit-bankruptcy","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"70301","name":"Detroit bankruptcy"},{"id":"11690","name":"tax reform"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}