We are using tax dollars. No matter where they come from, they are still yours and my tax dollars to subsidize so-called industrial development. Since no one can keep a family on minimum wages, we then must subsidize these people with welfare - more tax dollars. These businesses then hire the immigrant aliens who have taken over our city and who keep the slum lords' housing filled to unliveable levels. One only needs to read The Journal court cases column to see the costs in law enforcement.
Drugs are rampant.
Rapes and murders have increased. Robberies and assaults are all increasing. We cannot afford to hire enough police officers to handle the increase in crime. When I retired 16 years ago, I chose to stay here, because I felt it was the right-sized city, with all the amenities I liked. It was a city where I knew my neighbors by their first names, where I knew they would watch my home in my absence.