Reply #138: Yes, they should have budgeted for it

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But they didn't. They voted down a paltry tax increase 19 to 1. So now what? You make the city residents pay even higher taxes so that everyone is covered? A progressive, liberal society recognizes that those costs need to be borne by all, not by a select few, based on the ability to pay.

According to you, though, the residents of the city - who have a smaller tax base and are less affluent than the residents of the county - must pay more. Do you think poor people should pay more taxes so that the rich can benefit? Because that's exactly what you're saying.

Furthermore, no one here is arguing that we should go to pay-for-service libertarian nonsense. It's a strawman and you and the others making the argument all know it.