I’d take individual rights over extreme wealth any day. If you want an American city to be run like Singapore, move to Singapore.

Singapore, where you can get a bullet for possessing half a pound of weed. Where they check your car’s fuel tank before you leave to keep you from buying cheaper gas in Malaysia. Where you can be JAILED for “slandering the government.”

The one thing that can be said for S’pore is that punishments tend to be more immediate (fines or caning) vs jail time, which costs the public money and serves to train better criminals.

I’d rather have it be run somewhere in between Singapore and Trinidad. Which it sort of already is.