90% of tax money in the past evaporated for
- subsidies for large corporations
- fixing roads for people living upstate in the middle of nowhere
- corrupt / shady contracts that never get fulfilled
This left us in a huge deficit with 0 public infrastructure improvements for decades.
People werent ok with it, but the billionaires running things lived upstate or in gated communities.
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Wait... NYC doesn't have those huge underground bins yet?
IME those are pretty common in even smaller cities in Europe. Even the UK has them in plenty of cities. Frees up a lot of space and you don't need to empty them as much.
America really is weird sometimes. Imagine being rich as sin, buying a multi-million dollar property in NYC, then being ok with the neighbourhood around that property smelling like someone died after fucking a dumpster filled with fish, because you're ideologically opposed to even a small tax hike.
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