Biden's Plan For America's Suburbs

Joltin' Joe always touted his relationship with Obama. One item in agreement for both was to gain control of the suburban vote. The first item of business on this agenda deals with white women. In the off year elections of '18 they succeeded.

Gaining the suburbs means more than voting. It deals with annexation into the local major cities adjoining them.

I came across an article in National Review. It's Joe's plan stated by him.

The plan has three elements: 1) Inhibit suburban growth, and when possible encourage suburban re-migration to cities. This can be achieved, for example, through regional growth boundaries (as in Portland), or by relative neglect of highway-building and repair in favor of public transportation. 2) Force the urban poor into the suburbs through the imposition of low-income housing quotas. 3) Institute “regional tax-base sharing,” where a state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs (as in Minneapolis/St. Paul).

If you press suburbanites into cities, transfer urbanites to the suburbs, and redistribute suburban tax money to cities, you have effectively abolished the suburbs. For all practical purposes, the suburbs would then be co-opted into a single metropolitan region. Advocates of these policy prescriptions call themselves “regionalists.”