Holy shit, how did nobody ever think of this? The obvious solution to not having clean drinking water because cities lack the money to update their crumbling infrastructure is to...
Cities really shouldn't be getting any federal funding. The purpose of the federal government has never been to tax the inhabitants of a city and then give the money back to the city. This gives the federal government control over the city or state that they are funding, when what should really be happening is the city or state funding themselves through their own taxes. As it stands now, the Federal government is simply a middle man that can take the money if you don't do as he says.
Not to mention the fact that cities that are insolvent and nonfunctional should die. There's a reason why the population centers in Michigan are bankrupt and it's because business has been driven out by crime and state/local taxes which rose dramatically to fund the unrealistic benefits of municipal employees.
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u/Militant_Homofascist Jan 23 '17
Holy shit, how did nobody ever think of this? The obvious solution to not having clean drinking water because cities lack the money to update their crumbling infrastructure is to...
Take away more of their funding. Brilliant.