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Psip
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 1:11 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I came acoss a very interesting speech that I wanted to share with you.
Its the 1962 speech by Jerome P. Cavanagh at the mayoral inaugraution.

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Speech http://www.waltermediaworks.com/audio/cut_.mp3

(Message edited by PSIP on August 25, 2006)
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Livedog2
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 1:36 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Kewl!

Livedog2
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Mikeg
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 1:47 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The more things change, the more they stay the same....

Main points from his speech:
- facing increasing budget deficits and pension costs
- need for a metropolitan transit system
- need for safer streets
- Cobo Hall management problems
- need to attract new types of industries to the city
- need to improve the mayor/common council working relationship
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Taj920
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 7:45 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's Cavanagh, not Cavanaugh.
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Mackinaw
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 10:43 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Very cool. Kind of eerie to listen to that now.
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Jt1
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 10:50 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How much effect on population and business loss did he have by creating the city of Detroit income tax.

Coleman, Archer, Kwame get beat up for their actions but JC seems to get a free pass for creating the income tax. That certainly had some pretty devastating effects on the city.
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Magnasco
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 2:47 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The income tax would be gone now if it wasn't for the proposal "a" cap keeping the city from generating any real revenue from property taxes. Can't give up the $300 million a year there when something like 2/3's of the city homes are valued under 25 K.

Need some uncapping before that tax can be sent packing.

Saw that Roseville was trying to get 2.9 mills passed to combat their loss in revenue sharing and the effects of the proposal "a" cap, but it was defeated at the polls.

Probably what we would see if we were trying to find a way to offset the proposal "a" mess without the income tax. While noone likes to pay it, I think is just might be keeping things together at the moment.
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Jt1
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 2:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes, but it probably led to more and faster decline and flight.

At this point it is probably needed but when it was put in place it's effect was more bad than good.
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Magnasco
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Posted on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 3:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

He certainly makes it sound like doomsday in his speech there.
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7051
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Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 12:31 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The income tax was enacted in 1962, a couple of years before Cananagh took office.
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7051
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Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 12:33 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nevemind that last post. I thought the tax took effect just before his term, but he did enact it.
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Mikeg
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Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 12:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jerome Cavanagh won his improbable victory over incumbent mayor Louis Miriani in 1961... By the end of his first year in office, he had pushed Detroit's first income tax through the state legislature, thus assuring the city of the revenue it needed to balance its books.

Source
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Rooms222
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Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 9:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

From the archives of Time magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magaz ine/article/0,9171,939298,00.h tml
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837312-1,00.html

2nd url is a different story

(Message edited by rooms222 on August 26, 2006)
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Ray
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Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 12:27 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Wow, that is sobering.
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Tndetroiter
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Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 12:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The city would kill for an unemployment rate of 10% right now.
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Psip
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Posted on Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 1:22 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Room222 for those links,,,, very interesting. I remember Lou very well, as well as his lovely wife, Jackie.
May they both RIP.

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