https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/roger-scruton-interview/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 27 May 2008 14:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/roger-scruton-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:00:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2874#comment-1686 The pricipal reasons why the American middle class has fled the cities (and still is) is that ever since the end of World War II it has been relentlesss government policy to persuade and subsidize city inhabitatnts to move to the suburbs, offerng low cost suburban home financing, favorable tax policy etc. as incentives. Add to that the catastrophic decline in the quality and safety of urban schools, forced school bussing, urban riots, the rise in urban crime and corresponding collapse in law enforcement(particularly in the 1970s), redevelopment (which has been a relentless mass destroyer of low and middle priced urban housing, etc. and you have a prescription for the decline of cities that won’t be reversed unless and until these disastrous policies are reversed — which at best would be a decades-long process, if we were to try, which we haven’t done.

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