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		WalterBright on Dec 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The cost of being poor: Why it costs so much to be... Want to make South Side Chicago prosperous? Make it an attractive place for productive people to set up shop. Cutting taxes and regulation is how that works.

bagels on Dec 21, 2022 [–]

What person is going to invest in a shrinking city with poverty and tremendous violence just to pay a little less tax?

WalterBright on Dec 21, 2022 | [–]

Anyone who is willing to take on risk for a large payback.

After all, those sort of people settled in America and made it the most prosperous country in the world.

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