Why Rural Residents Resent Us

[MisterP]

8. it's the same with "Red States": they're the "taker states" that they denounce

but it's a complicated dance: they're against government spending but since they take more of it the pols have to 1. maintain the anti-spending rhetoric and 2. keep it flowing to their district; it's the same trick Quebec pulled--it gets $6B/year from Ottawa, so the only step left is to demand that they be exempted from paying any taxes to Ottawa!

so that means they have to frame the cities as welfare-ridden slum-filled money sinks and that the Fed money is coming from the pol (not Washington) to a deserving elect who support the politically-correct effetes and teeming urban hives on their broad agrarian shoulders

the exact same legerdemain hampers transit expansion--there's always a massive hullabaloo over each penny spent on rail, while 90% of the money goes to expanding freeways, constant repair, and improving exurb access