Their justification for commanding state/county funding is one Hartford could use as well, namely that lots of people make money there and use city resources (directly and indirectly), so the city is entitled to some of that money back regardless of where you commute from. . . . Many people are employed in Hartford, but few people of means live there, leaving it with no tax base to deal with the decay.
This is the sort of Marxist creed that seems facially compelling, but, upon closer inspection, is shown to be the wealth-redistribution tripe that it is.
Few people of means live there? Ok. So, by your own admission, everything "of means" in Hartford is attributable to people who don't live there. The museums, theatres, stadiums, and so on. Right?
So, rather than demand more money from their "of means" suburban supporters, shouldn't the poor, "no means" Hartfordians be thanking their daily guests?
No tax base? Really? You mean there is no property tax on the slew of buildings down town that house the lawyers and the insurance companies and the medical providers? Or on the folks selling food to all of these people?
What about the support jobs that those industries bring? Are they not staffed by Hartford locals who want to work?
Your scam is a simple wealth redistribution scam. It's not enough that commuters are the only thing keeping Hartford from being Detroit. More than that, you want to force the lie that commuters are somehow removing value from Hartford.
What a sad joke. Take away all of your rich commuters and the city is dead within a year, with nothing but ghetto-ites fighting for hand outs left.
BTW - ghetto just means poor area - it's got nothing to do with race, as the word existed well before blacks became associated with it, as any well read student of judaism could tell you.
