Australian chiming in: I've always found it absurd how much power local governments have in the US, the idea of paying different amounts of tax in different cit

Australian chiming in: I've always found it absurd how much power local governments have in the US, the idea of paying different amounts of tax in different cities of the same state is alien to me. It explains so much about the inequality too, poor schools in poor neighborhoods isn't really a thing here, at least not to the same extent.