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>and every town are in a de facto competition for tax dollars, So (mostly) turn off the faucet and make everywhere pay closer to their own way. Not getting $1
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>and every town are in a de facto competition for tax dollars,
So (mostly) turn off the faucet and make everywhere pay closer to their own way.
Not getting $1-$1.10 back on the dollar isn't gonna bankrupt rural areas. It just means you the yuppies will have to suffer through the state highway to the u-pick orchard being replaced every 12yr instead of 10.
The whole "pay taxes and then let whoever you paid them to give you them back with strings attached about exactly how you use it" model and designing to qualify for funding that said model incentivizes is exactly how you wind up with boondoggle sprawl. If places were using their own money things would look very different.
- mechanical_bear 5y ago> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Since when is "the community" roughly analogous to "yuppies" and since when is being a yuppie a bad thing?
- mechanical_bear 5y agoAt least some would identify with the lifestyle, etc you deemed “yuppie”. You understand what you are doing with comments like that, it’s divisive and not productive. Edit: I won’t edit my comment to better address your comment since you edited after I responded.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoSurely some identify as yuppies but I think that's immaterial here. Yuppie isn't a slur. It's a colloquial expression for a set of demographics. You know what's divisive and not productive? Drive-by low effort comments quoting the guidelines and projecting offense on other's behalf.
- nerdponx 5y agoAre you kidding? It's been a slur for a long time and you were clearly using it as one.
- mechanical_bear 5y agoYou are intentionally being obtuse and abrasive, please reconsider.
- nerdponx 5y agoDense areas generally subsidize sparse areas.
- banannaise 5y agoUrban spending is disproportionately police. If each area pays their own way, urban areas get basically nothing but a ton of police. Then the cops, who live in the suburbs, take that money (and its potential tax revenue) elsewhere. You will note that this is already a problem, because we already have a partial pay-your-own-way system.
- ejb999 5y ago>>Urban spending is disproportionately police. I don't think that is even close to true, NYC latest budget for example is $92.3B (2022), Police got $5.42B, about accounts for ~6% of the total. Education, social services and 'other' account for almost 70% of the total. https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/03/FY22-Prelim-Expense-Fact-Sheet.pdf https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...