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Originally Posted by Aquillion
As a New Yorker myself, I strongly disagree with the assertion that there has to be some artificially-maintained balance between 'rural' and 'urban' interests. That's what got us into the situation we have now, where major, highly-productive industrialized urban areas pay huge amounts in taxes, while a disproportionate percentage of that money ends up going to undeveloped, backwater rural areas in the form of pork-barrel spending.
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Wait, I thought that only the House of Representatives could legislate spending bills
Blame the people, don't blame the system! (sadly, this absurd thing is true....)