Straight Line of the Day: How To Destroy a City: …

How To Destroy a City:

Keep raising taxes until everything within the city is much more expensive then outside the city.

Be soft on crime.

Allow mentally ill people to wander about the city doing whatever they want.

Other ideas?

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  1. Seattle did all the above, and took the approach of using maintenance funds to paint rainbow crosswalks instead of maintaining their piers. Literally a couple blocks worth of retail shops and restaurants fell in the water. Oh and let’s not forget the part where you let the mentally ill claim parts of the city as “Autonomous Zones”.

  2. How about removing reading, writing, and arithmetic as requirements to graduate high school?

    Letting people be lawyers without having to bas the BAR.

    Arrest local heroes when they selflessly stop murderous mentally ill people from killing innocents.

  3. Ban gas powered lawn equipment, and gas powered cars, and natural gas powered stoves, fireplaces, furnaces and water heaters. Then shut down your nuclear powerplants, and remove your hydroelectric dams to save the fish. Demand everyone use solar, in an area famous for being cloudy and rainy all the time.

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