In most cases it's the city folks subsidizing the rural folks. It turns out that it costs a lot more money to build the roads, power lines, schools, etc than th

In most cases it's the city folks subsidizing the rural folks. It turns out that it costs a lot more money to build the roads, power lines, schools, etc than the small number of rural residents that benefit from them will ever pay in taxes [0]. And in the specific case of New York's MTA, revenue from subway fares has repeatedly been diverted to pay for things other than the subway [1]. [0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/7/11/the-hills-are-alive-cause-the-cities-subsidize-them https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/7/11/the-hills-are-... [1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/03/09/albany-didnt-cut-the-mta-budget-they-stole-from-it/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/03/09/albany-didnt-cut-the-...