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A subsidy means you pay less for something than you would on the open market. Cities not only pay the market price for all those products the majority of their
by xthrown1 4y ago
A subsidy means you pay less for something than you would on the open market. Cities not only pay the market price for all those products the majority of their taxes go out to the hinterlands on top of that.
- prottog 4y agoCities pay market price for food coming from the hinterlands but at the same time they pay a subsidy to the same hinterlands that grow that same food? Doesn't sound like market price anymore. It's nonsensical to say that just because the tax receipts of a suburb doesn't pay in full its roads and bridges, its existence is necessarily subsidized by the rest. Does a city pay in full for its share of the US Navy whose protection of global commerce it depends on to survive? Are cities subsidized by the blood of those in the armed forces, who primarily come from the hinterlands?
- xthrown1 4y agoThe majority of US taxes come from cities. It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces.
- IncRnd 4y ago> It's the hinterlands that are free riding on the US armed forces. Yet. "In every region of the country, recruitment rates were higher in rural and exurban counties than in urban counties. Only urban counties in the South had recruitment rates above the national average. Cities in the Northeast, Midwest and West all had rates well below the national average." [1] [1] https://dailyyonder.com/largest-share-army-recruits-come-ruralexurban-america/2009/03/03 https://dailyyonder.com/largest-share-army-recruits-come-rur...
- xthrown1 4y ago[flagged]
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoIt’s absolute numbers that matter, not rates.