> It could be cheaper in the long run to have more tax collection and expenditure at the local level, and not rely as much on federal grants. There's a bit of

> It could be cheaper in the long run to have more tax collection and expenditure at the local level, and not rely as much on federal grants. There's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma here in that even if a city decides to go this route, their citizens are still paying Federal taxes and contributing to the programs used to buy busses. So you're not going to save your citizens any money unless everyone stops using the programs. From an incremental standpoint, where everyone has already defected, you want your local governments to be grabbing every grant they can.