Get ready for a huge upheaval, however. Urban areas in the US have typically been ok subsidizing rural areas (via healthcare and the social safety net more gen

Get ready for a huge upheaval, however. Urban areas in the US have typically been ok subsidizing rural areas (via healthcare and the social safety net more generally.) But since US Republicans, with their recent tax cut bill, have directly targeted urban areas with higher taxes, I'm detecting a rising current of dislike for the urban-to-rural subsidy. We could easily end up, in the US, with the urban areas fed up with the rural areas, and once we move back to a Democratic government, the urban areas trying to punish the rural areas. That would be really, really, really bad for the US. Really bad. (It could end up with a Greece-Germany situation happening with say Oklahoma and Kansas vs. New York and California, with crushing economic effects in red states while the blue states continue to prosper. I don't want to be alarmist but that could possibly even lead to a fracturing of the US or its currency. So yes. Really bad.)