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Originally Posted by BrinChi
I'm not saying that the government should be making money off of property taxes, but it does need to balance budgets and be at least revenue neutral. This is for the general welfare. The government is supposed to provide equal services in pricey neighborhoods (i.e. Lakeview) as well as the least dense/lowest price neighborhoods (e.g. Englewood). For the city to be able to sustainably lose money in Englewood they need to get extra revenue in the affluent neighborhoods. Right now I'm not seeing equal levels of service across the city, which means we either need more net revenue or what we have is being mismanaged.
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I'm curious what is not equal. Schools are funded the same all over the city. Police and fire protection is all over the city. Roads are the same all over. Garbage collection the same. Those are the main functions of city government.