Hi phoe I ' ve sent you a request , ignMonkey . Would appreciate your help <| sep |> Maybe the cities need to just abandon the rural areas to their ignorance . The rural areas keep voting for politicians who will cut back on social security , medicare , medicaid , etc . They keep voting for politicians who will relentlessly cut taxes and slash social spending . Maybe the cities should just let them do it , and instead push more for urban autonomy and local control . The cities are , at the end of the day , far wealthier than the countryside . If the federal government is far smaller , then the cities would on average actually come out ahead . Without all the welfare the countryside gets , the rural folks would be much , much worse off , but they would be getting exactly what they asked for . The rural areas get so much welfare , and the people in the cities just keep on subsidizing it year after year . Maybe it ' s time we left these people to their fate and gave them what they wanted ? Think of all the subsidies rural areas receive Road spending Rural electrification Rural subsidized phone and internet Post office subsidization same cost to send a letter to a rural address . Social security and medicare people in the countryside average older . Medicaid lower incomes on average in the countryside . Farm aid and farm subsidies . Etc . The cities massively subsidize the countryside , and they ' ve been doing it for years . All the while , the fools in the countryside have been constantly voting against the very programs that keep them from falling into abject poverty and misery . Well after this election , maybe it ' s time we just gave what they wanted . Let them scrap federal spending . Let the idiots in the countryside starve . They want a small government ? Let them have it . Maybe the political machines in the cities should just focus instead on local control . Remove state level caps of urban tax levels , allow them more free reign on their spending . Without less money going to the federal government , the cities can then pass city and county level income taxes . These taxes can be used to fund local level pensions and health care systems . For example , a metro area might just raise a levy and create a network of public hospitals , free to anyone who lived within the area . People out in the countryside ? Well they don ' t pay for them , so they ' re not allowed in . Maybe this is the model we need to move to . The rural folks pretend they ' re selfreliant , but they ' re the biggest group of welfare queens out there . Maybe we should scrap the federal spending , give them the small government they ' ve been asking for , and just let the fools starve .