Take away funding via equalization payments ("Länderfinanzausgleich") provided by the financially responsible states of Germany, and the city would probably col

Take away funding via equalization payments ("Länderfinanzausgleich") provided by the financially responsible states of Germany, and the city would probably collapse in the future due to indeptments, as it is a net transfer recipient: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/germany-without-fiscal-transfers https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/germany-without-fiscal-transf...