Is rural America financially leeching off metro areas? Commenters on this site often like to point out that rural areas receive more in benefits from tax dollars than they pay in. Instead, most of it is siphoned off to be invested in the financial institutions, infrastructure, and economy of metro areas. So again, who is leeching from whom? It seems clear from the examples above that while we urban plebs and rural peasants fight each other over scraps and crumbs, the rich and powerful win by leeching off all of us.

Source: The Guardian July 06, 2023 16:28 UTC