>>60568445>Most tax money gets invested to the cities by government jobsfucking rural retard cope. It's not about "MOST" or the absolute value, it's about economic efficiency. Per dollar in, how many do you get out? The cities have always subsidized suburbs and rural areas. It's literally the entire point of cities. Large groups of people living close together, combining resources: public services, etc. vs rural or suburbanites, who do the opposite. Governments invest in cities instead of your potato farm because that's where the growth is.
>>60568233holy mega cope
Cities produce everything that actually makes America worth shit. The computers that you're typing on, the phones in your pocket, the cars that you drive, the medicine that you depend on, the doctors that you visit, the movies that you watch, the music that you listen to, the infrastructure that you drive on, work, and live in.
Any country can produce corn, but not every country can produce tier 1 research institutions that create the next generation of scientists, engineers, medical personnel, economists, military experts, that keep the United States as the world's preeminent economic, technological, and military power.