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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by CydeWeys on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:40PM (#15863049)
This has everything to do with the fundamental physical fact that it's hard to provide services at very low population densities. I live in a city that has low single digit emergency response times. In order to get that out in rural farmland you would need to collocate a police and fire station with every single dwelling. Not gonna happen.
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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by doomcaster1 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:26PM (#15865629)
Correct, but that doesn't change the fact that when most people think about taxes they think of them paying for roads, schools, and emergency services. All lacking in rural areas. This creates the cognitive dissonance against taxes among those folk.
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