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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019

 

Trump also said, among other things, that the district was “rat infested.”

 

The city has become dangerous, trash removal is a serious problem, and rodent infestations have become so bad that former Mayor Catherine Pugh (who recently resigned over allegations of corruption) actually said in a television interview that she could smell the dead rats while touring parts of the city.

 

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation. You would think that you were in a Third World country.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said of West Baltimore in a 2015 interview with The Baltimore Sun

 

President Barack Obama also had noted Baltimore’s troubles with rampant drugs and fatherlessness.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2019

 

High crime, high taxes, and corrupt governance plague one of the nation’s premier port cities. But it hasn’t always been this way. The city thrived in the 1950s, and has had some years of revival more recently.

 

Here are three (of many) reasons why Baltimore is currently so dysfunctional.

 

Violent Crime

  • It’s no secret that Baltimore has a problem with crime and drugs.
  • A total of 342 homicides occurred in Baltimore in 2017, the highest homicide count in the nation that year.
  • To put that in perspective, according to CBS News, Baltimore’s murder rate was twice that of Chicago, a city that’s become notorious for its own violent crime.
  • Federalist contributor Ellie Bufkin unearthed an incredible statistic, noting: “Baltimore’s homicide rate is so high that under current U.S. asylum laws, the residents could qualify for refugee status in the United States.”
  • And as Seth Barron, associate editor of City Journal, wrote in the New York Post, Baltimore has a murder rate of about 50 per 100,000 people, putting the U.S. city “in the ranks of Jamaica, Venezuela, and El Salvador in terms of lethality.”

 

                    

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High Taxes, High Poverty

  • Alongside Baltimore’s high crime rates are crushing poverty and sky-high taxes. A link certainly may exist between these two things.
  • As Reihan Salam noted in Slate, outrageously high taxes are keeping the city poor.
    This is not only because they drive out businesses, but because high property taxes in particular are driving out middle-income families who would help revitalize the city.
  • The city adopted tax-and-spend policies that have squeezed out capital—and the middle class.
  • The result is a city littered with abandoned homes and a shrinking tax base. Baltimore may be a one-party town, but people have voted with their feet too and have decided to get out.

 

         

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Poor Education

  • Despite spending about $16,000 per student, Baltimore has some of the worst-performing public schools in the nation.
  • According to The Baltimore Sun: “In fourth- and eighth-grade reading, only 13 percent of city students are considered proficient or advanced.
    In fourth-grade math, 14 percent were proficient and in eighth-grade math 11 percent met the mark, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federally mandated test from the U.S. Department of Education.”
  • Meanwhile, the education bureaucracy continues to expand as salaries climb higher and higher.
  • The problem is that government is misspending money.
  • Currently, Baltimore has only a limited school choice options, which have received considerable opposition from teachers unions and progressives.

 

         

 Baltimore City closes two more schools earlydue tofacilities issues

 

 

 

 

Sources:

Baltimore Is a Mess. Here Are 3 Big Issues the City Faces. (dailysignal.com)

Baltimore Sun - We are currently unavailable in your region (tribpub.com)

Site Not Available (wbaltv.com)

Accounting Firm Tax Services Mergers and Acquisitions Section 382 Transfer Pricing (eisneramper.com)

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