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Originally Posted by Cal
The solution is clear, the Inner City should secede from the rest of Calgary. Vive la latte libre!
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From an "eliminate the subsidy" perspective, this might actually work. Inner Calgary would have to spend a lot of time negotiating with Outer Calgary though.
You'd probably also need some tolls at the border to account for downsteam effects on Inner Calgary's infrastructure created by Outer Calgary (should Outer Calgary not agree to pay for them on a city-to-city level).
For what it's worth, inner Toronto has precisely the same problem (but they got there through amalgamation) - at its heart, it's a question of how you treat a minority fairly in a democracy. Independence is one solution (though this creates new minorities), but there are others.