A new Land Value Tax Plan is being discussed by the Detroit City Council. The city is considering implementing it to lower the property tax. Detroit doubles the national average regarding property …
approach to democracy for hard times. the message from mr. jackson and from others today, organize and sue. joining us now is democratic state representative, fred durhall, chairman of the michigan legislative black caucus. he was at the press conference today in benton harbor. thank you for being here with us tonight, sir. appreciate your time. rachel, thank you very much for allowing us to come and talk with you today. clearly, you consider this emergency manager law to have constitutional problems, enough that you are getting ready to sue over it. can you describe for us the basis of this legal challenge? yes. we are looking at the u.s. constitution in article 1, section 10-1, which talks about contracts. it talks about the ability of the federal government to stop any state from being able to quash contracts. and that is important for this struggle, because what is going on is that you have an emergency
black lawmakers preparing to challenge michigan s new approach to democracy for hard times. the message from mr. jackson and from others today, organize and sue. joining us now is democratic state representative, fred durhall, chairman of the michigan legislative black caucus. he was at the press conference today in benton harbor. thank you for being here with us tonight, sir. appreciate your time. rachel, thank you very much for allowing us to come and talk with you today. clearly, you consider this emergency manager law to have constitutional problems, enough that you are getting ready to sue over it. can you describe for us the basis of this legal challenge? yes. we are looking at the u.s. constitution in article 1, section 10-1, which talks about contracts. it talks about the ability of the federal government to stop any state from being able to squash contracts. and that is important for this