Urban spending is disproportionately police. If each area pays their own way, urban areas get basically nothing but a ton of police. Then the cops, who live in the suburbs, take that money (and its potential tax revenue) elsewhere.

You will note that this is already a problem, because we already have a partial pay-your-own-way system.

>>Urban spending is disproportionately police.

I don't think that is even close to true, NYC latest budget for example is $92.3B (2022), Police got $5.42B, about accounts for ~6% of the total.

Education, social services and 'other' account for almost 70% of the total.

https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...

Dense areas generally subsidize sparse areas.

> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Since when is "the community" roughly analogous to "yuppies" and since when is being a yuppie a bad thing?

At least some would identify with the lifestyle, etc you deemed “yuppie”. You understand what you are doing with comments like that, it’s divisive and not productive.

Edit: I won’t edit my comment to better address your comment since you edited after I responded.

Surely some identify as yuppies but I think that's immaterial here. Yuppie isn't a slur. It's a colloquial expression for a set of demographics.

You know what's divisive and not productive? Drive-by low effort comments quoting the guidelines and projecting offense on other's behalf.

Are you kidding? It's been a slur for a long time and you were clearly using it as one.

You are intentionally being obtuse and abrasive, please reconsider.