With 18,000 properties being foreclosed on this year and after well over a hundred thousand houses lost to unpaid taxes in Detroit in just the last half dozen years I would think the problem is pretty obvious.

What doesn't make any sense to me is that of course die hard republicans like Wesley Mouch are going to fully support that people can choose where to live in Michigan and how much rent tax they will pay with different property tax rates all over the place. But why do democrats support this policy by constantly jacking the rate with every good idea they can come up with? One would think they would be vehemently opposed to throwing people out of there homes for unpaid taxes.

Ironic that Lansing's fear of California's Proposition 13 has put this state in this mess and their housing market has been the strongest in the nation for decades and ours has been pretty much the worst, yet we still soldier on.