{"id":39239,"date":"2020-07-01T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39239"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:20:21","slug":"the-plan-to-end-the-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39239","title":{"rendered":"The Plan To End The Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Stanley Kurtz at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/biden-and-dems-are-set-to-abolish-the-suburbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Review<\/a>\u00a0 posted an article about the Democrat&#8217;s plan to abolish the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The National Review reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The suburbs are the swing constituency in our national elections. If suburban voters knew what the Democrats had in store for them, they\u2019d run screaming in the other direction. Unfortunately, Republicans have been too clueless or timid to make an issue of the Democrats\u2019 anti-suburban plans. It\u2019s time to tell voters the truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>I\u2019ve been studying Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing plans<\/a>, and what I\u2019ve seen is both surprising and frightening. I expected that a President Biden would enforce the Obama administration\u2019s radical AFFH (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing) regulation to the hilt. That is exactly what Biden promises to do. By itself, that would be more than enough to end America\u2019s suburbs as we\u2019ve known them, as I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/massive-government-overreach-obamas-affh-rule-out-stanley-kurtz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/attention-americas-suburbs-you-have-just-been-annexed-stanley-kurtz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly<\/a> here at <span class=\"small_caps\">NRO<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--center ad-unit--inline\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What surprises me is that Biden has actually promised to go much further than AFFH. Biden has embraced Cory Booker\u2019s strategy for ending single-family zoning in the suburbs and creating what you might call \u201clittle downtowns\u201d in the suburbs. Combine the Obama-Biden administration\u2019s radical AFFH regulation with Booker\u2019s new strategy, and I don\u2019t see how the suburbs can retain their ability to govern themselves. It will mean the end of local control, the end of a style of living that many people prefer to the city, and therefore the end of meaningful choice in how Americans can live. Shouldn\u2019t voters know that this is what\u2019s at stake in the election?<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--native\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-native_mobile\" class=\"dfp-ad dfp-native_mobile \" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-ad-unit=\"native_mobile\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It is no exaggeration to say that progressive urbanists have long dreamed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2012\/08\/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolishing the suburbs<\/a>. (In fact, I\u2019ve explained it all in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spreading-Wealth-Robbing-Suburbs-Cities\/dp\/1595230920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>.) Initially, these anti-suburban radicals wanted large cities to simply annex their surrounding suburbs, like cities did in the 19th century. That way a big city could fatten up its tax base. Once progressives discovered it had since become illegal for a city to annex its surrounding suburbs without voter consent, they cooked up a strategy that would amount to the same thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--center ad-unit--inline\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This de facto annexation strategy had three parts: (1) use a kind of quota system to force \u201ceconomic integration\u201d on the suburbs, pushing urban residents outside of the city; (2) close down suburban growth by regulating development, restricting automobile use, and limiting highway growth and repair, thus forcing would-be suburbanites back to the city; (3) use state and federal laws to force suburbs to redistribute tax revenue to poorer cities in their greater metropolitan region. If you force urbanites into suburbs, force suburbanites back into cities, and redistribute suburban tax revenue, then presto! You have effectively abolished the suburbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Democrats who live in the suburbs were aware of this plan, would they vote for Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire article. So far President Trump is the only person willing to fight this move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Stanley Kurtz at The National Review\u00a0 posted an article about the Democrat&#8217;s plan to abolish the suburbs. The National Review reports: The suburbs are the swing constituency in our national elections. If suburban voters knew what the Democrats had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9093,4504,853,9192,7921,118,911,135,10589,3197,12669,6746,1630],"class_list":["post-39239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing","tag-cory-booker","tag-democrats","tag-fair-housing","tag-federal-law","tag-joe-biden","tag-national-review","tag-obama-administration","tag-president-trump","tag-stanley-kurtz","tag-suburbs","tag-tax-revenue","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39242,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions\/39242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}