Subject: Re: Aldi vs Walmart price changes on same item.
Ultimately, what you are going to find, is that state/local taxes will have to rise if people want to replace the services no longer subsidized by the federal government. That puts local politicians in the hot seat when it comes to raising taxes. The challenge is that frequently cities are demographically different thana the overall population of their states which can cause the equivalent of financial gerrymandering.

Years ago, NYC set up an Off-Track Betting authority which set up city-owned booky parlors. The tracks were located in New York State, but outside of the City. The rates set for the video feeds from the tracks was calculated to drain any profits and send the funds to municipalities outside of the City. NYC OTB went into Chapter 9 bankruptcy (When a municipality no longer can pay its bills - including to my company).

I think you'll find that, though NYC taxes pay for over half of the State's budget, those living outside pf the City couldn't give a fig for what was happening in the City.

We now have a Democratic mayoral candidate in a city which generally elects the Democrat, who thinks that NYC's working class deserves free buses, no rent increases, child care paid for by the City and so on - all paid for by the rich oligarchs who live there. While I'm far from being an oligarch, I have put off buying an apartment and am trying to decide what other state (or country) meets my requirements.

Jeff