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Isn't this arguing indirectly for national taxpayers to prop up the value of certain properties? Why not just have a local collaboration with a local artist and people pay directly?
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Because they would all refuse, presumably? Like they would refuse to fix the road, because that would benefit everyone not just their greedy selves.

Yes, local roads are usually taken care of by local taxes. Why would Manhattan's road improvements be paid for by rural Virginians?

That's just an arbitrary separation. Both places benefit from the federal highway system that allows goods to be delivered across State lines. Both benefit from the maintenance of shipping lanes, the national power grid, the submarine cables connecting them to Europe and Asia, the...

This is why hyper privatization will fail: it's impossible to separate out all the intricately intertwined systems in such a way that people are throwing pennies in a million directions to pay exactly enough to each stakeholder involved in the functioning of their society.




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