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> Cities live on the backs of rural people and it's time to stop subsidizing them and send some of that money to the rural communities. Cities subsidize rural
by N1H1L 4y ago
> Cities live on the backs of rural people and it's time to stop subsidizing them and send some of that money to the rural communities.
Cities subsidize rural areas fiscally, look at the tax base in a city, and a rural area. Suburban US by the way is the most subsidized part of the country, BTW. StrongTowns has published an enormous amount of work in this arena.
- ars 4y agoAnd rural areas subsidize cities calorically. You can't eat money. And all the money is useless if you can't buy anything. Cities are great at churning through money in services but they don't actually produce most of the things that they use. So yeah if you look just at dollars, cities produce more. But they would fail utterly without the rural areas, I don't think cities give enough credit to that. Strong towns is very myopic in what they focus on. They are not considering the second order of effects of things like reducing the scale of the interstate system.