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Urban 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
by banannaise 5y ago
Urban 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...