As Detroit automakers try and lobby Congress for taxpayer dollars,it's important to look at how unions have destroyed economic development.Union boosters claim unions raise wages and without unions we'd all be poor.Facts are rather stubborn things.If that was the case,Detroit would be the wealthiest city in America.As
CBS TV reported in April of this year:
The accolades continue to come for Plano.
On Tuesday, the Census Bureau named the Collin County city "the most affluent city in the USA."
The annual report presents a snapshot of income and poverty levels in America.
Plano had the highest income and lowest poverty rate among cities with populations of 250,000 or more.
Just last month, Salary.com named Plano as the best city in which to build vast personal wealth.
Plano's median household income in 2007 was $84,492, up 10% from 2006, which was the same year Wal-Mart opened the experimental luxury Wal-Mart Supercenter on Park Road and the Dallas North Tollway as part of the Prestonwood Town Center.
San Jose, Calif., was second in the most recent report with a median income of $76,963.
Frito-Lay, JCPenney, EDS and other companies are head quartered in Plano, and Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin trains at her father's gym there.
"We've got the lowest taxes and highest level of services in North Texas," Mayor Pat Evans said.
You can't say unions had much or anything to do with Plano's success.So who's the poorest big city in America?:
The poorest city in the nation was Detroit, with a median household income of $28,097. It fell to the bottom spot this year, replacing Cleveland.
No word yet from the UAW on this one.
