With a big difference: Instead of the state deciding how much to equalize and who the recipients should be, rich cities preempted that and set their own equali

With a big difference: Instead of the state deciding how much to equalize and who the recipients should be, rich cities preempted that and set their own equalization contributions unilaterally. In the process, instead of deciding on the equalization recipients through any political process or deliberation, they opened that decision up to individual taxpayers.