Rashida Tlaib: “Our residents are saying: Enough. Enough with giving billionaires and corporations taxpayer dollars that should be going…”

“Our residents are saying: Enough. Enough with giving billionaires and corporations taxpayer dollars that should be going to improve the quality of life of our residents, especially in a city that is still struggling with water shutoffs and foreclosures. In the city of Detroit, billionaire developers are now lining up for $800 million in tax giveaways after decades of broken promises. They even have the nerve to say the money isn't enough or coming fast enough. Billionaires are asking a recently bankrupt city, the city of Detroit, for 800 million in public dollars, from a city still grappling with poverty, with the lack of affordable housing, and so much more. I just cannot believe how easily we give this money away to people with a track record of failure. In Detroit, the Ilitch Holdings took $400 million for what they called ``District Detroit'' just a few years ago. They showed us these beautiful images and renderings, and said this is what they were going to do with the public dollars. Do you know what we got? We got parking lots, just parking lots. We got just asphalt--even though they got much of the property on top of the tax dollars--for just $1. Many of these parking lots sit empty while we struggle for affordable housing and so many other things. Again, because of these broken promises, we are stuck grappling with poverty. They took the money from the people.…”