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Japan has an interesting approach to this problem. I don’t remember the details but they have some mechanism to funnel tax revenues from big urban areas to the
by cageface 8y ago
Japan has an interesting approach to this problem. I don’t remember the details but they have some mechanism to funnel tax revenues from big urban areas to the smaller cities that provide a lot of their educated workforce.
- C4K3 8y agoHometown tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hometown_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hometown_tax Its implementation is flawed though, citizens can freely pick any city even if they have no relation to it, and cities are allowed to give gifts to citizens who choose the city, resulting in cities competing to offer the best kickbacks.