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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
That's insane. You guys are getting screwed. Where I live we have two buildings, two gyms, indoor rinks, outdoor rinks, outdoor pool, skate park, tennis courts, cricket pitch, multiple playgrounds, wading pool, ping pong tables, landscaping around the community, programs, and staff, etc. Your tax dollars pay for it.
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Your community is a legacy of when North American was a socialist utopia fighting to destroy oligarchic kleptocracy. A settlement was eventually reached, where the kleptocracies stopped calling themselves "communist", but continued their systems as is with slightly less central management, and where the western socialist nations stopped taxing the rich people, while pretending that it wasn't their tax contributions to the social state that allowed western countries to out compete the fake socialists, allowing capital to flow upwards via the reverse invisible hand. Stripped of all of their resources governments turned turned towards ever more complicated schemes to supply fewer a fewer services proving to everyone who has never been in a 1960s era community hall that governments are incapable of providing any community services.
That combined with the legislative state delegating their responsibilities to special interest groups and the judiciary has allowed the cost of doing things to spiral out of control and created scenarios where tiny groups of people can hold whole communities hostage, meaning it does in fact cost $17,000 and 50 hours to have 2 people spend 4 hours planting flowers (just to cover their donkeys and make sure nobody can accuse them of misusing the funds).
Thanks Thatcher.