Newt Gingrich brought the formula for fixing Detroit to Mackinac Island last year when he told the Detroit Regional Chamber's policy conference that making the entire city a tax-free zone would spur investment and job creation and attract residents. Now, Rep. Hansen Clarke hopes to convince Congress to go along.
The freshman Detroit Democrat has fashioned a version of the former House speaker's idea into a bill that he's introduced in the House to reinvest every federal tax dollar collected in the city to its rebuilding.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110922/...#ixzz1YgKrVMs9

I kinda like it. I'd much rather the $15-$20k I pay in federal taxes come right back to the city. That's 10-15x how much I'm paying city taxes. Could you imagine what this would do with the city budget? Plus you'd be reducing the property taxes and eliminating the income tax?!

What do we need to do to get this some political traction??