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Re:The new golden age of wildlife in New England by banannaise on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:20PM (#31111469)
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.

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Re:The new golden age of wildlife in New England by ejb999 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:58PM (#31113772)
>>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...

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