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I don't think the flow of money is from Upstate NY to NYC. And to take your example to it's logical conclusion, we'd end up in an AnCap paradise. Why should I

• bko 6y ago
  Size is important in that regard. I have less of an issue paying for socialized goods on a local level than I do at a much larger level. I'm willing to help a neighbor out, but less willing to help out someone on the other side of the earth. Local level is also more transparent and the officials in charge are more likely to be held responsible. I have more access to my mayor than I do my governor. > roads to places I'll never go Gasoline tax and toll roads are a good way of linking those who benefit to those who provide the good. > schools my child doesn't attend A lot of people move out of high tax neighborhoods when their kids graduate high school. I don't think school should be tied to real-estate anyway because it creates really perverse dynamics (people without money end up going to the worse funded schools). So that model doesn't exactly work well right now > medical procedures that I don't need I buy health insurance voluntarily and gladly pay for medical procedures that I don't need on the off chance that I need an expensive medical procedure in the future