> The suburban lifestyle needs to be subsidized All infrastructure is subsidized, including the lifestyle so beloved by young urban hipsters with no children.

> The suburban lifestyle needs to be subsidized All infrastructure is subsidized, including the lifestyle so beloved by young urban hipsters with no children. So? Lafayette, Louisiana is in trouble because it had an oil boom followed by an oil bust. And the idea of dividing up regions of the city by whether they "make a profit" or not is, to be blunt, just goofy. Yeah, revenue is generated in the industrial and business regions of town rather than in the residential regions. That's...unsurprising. To expand a bit, imagine a block that has a branch of Bank of America, five apartment buildings, a small park, and a clinic operated by a non-profit. Using the exact technique shown in your article (but on a smaller scale), the BofA branch would have a huge green spike, while all of the others would be red. By the "reasoning" in the article, everyone except BofA should have their taxes raised. Umm... no.