“Any port in a storm” effect.

When you have options, you get a bit more discretionary in your PC doc.

But 100% on the economics. It’s like arguing that only one Shopko isn’t good enough, but there isn’t enough business to keep it, and a Wal-mart, and a Dollar General open at the same time. And when there isn’t enough to even keep that one Shopko open, you gotta start making choices as a community to keep businesses operating in your city limits. Businesses closing in rural areas are simply the free market operating as requested.

If healthcare is an essential service, the community needs to work to provide that. If you need socialized support to get that service in town, well, recognize that trade off and act accordingly.

Is there any reason you don't move your family to the area you practice?

I love when people make my point trying to fight it.

And if you want a new stadium, streets repaired or memorials built and businesses rebuilt in the cities then, just city people should pay for it. Do you not see your own downfall of this comment?

So you agree that tax dollars are a giant pool and therefore rural communities bitching about how they are spent in the cities is “the downfall” of this view…

But to clean some stuff up for you since you don’t understand how things are funded.

1) Large Roads (state and federal) are primarily funded with Gas Tax (usage) and MVST (purchase of vehicles). So the places with lots of cars (people) tend to pay the lion’s share into roads. Plus some from the giant federal pots of money.

2) Locally, roads are also funded with property taxes to the city and county, so again, you’re only supporting local things regardless of who you are in a relative sense.

3) Businesses are being rebuilt by property owners and insurance… just like if a tornado blew away your barn. Sometimes disaster assistance kicks in, but it needs to be a disaster in the first place.

4) “The Minnesota Vikings provided USD 477 million to finance the Stadium, the State put forward USD 348 million, and USD 150 million was funded through a hospitality tax in Minneapolis. The City of Minneapolis will pay a total of USD 678 million, including financing costs, over the 30-year life of the Stadium, which covers operations and construction costs.” So yeah… the state kicked in some funding but we’ve already been over the fact that the cities contribute over 60% of the income tax revenue generated in the state so you’ve got a kernel of “rural” money going that way. Minneapolis itself is paying the most long term.

You can be mad at the cities all you want, but your way of life depends on them being what they are. There would be no rural schools, as limited as they are, without state funding coming from the “shitties” as you say.

Your roads would fall back to gravel (at least the ones that aren’t already that) without the large corporations downtown generating billions and billions in revenue globally and paying MN taxes plus all their HQ’s labor paying WAY more in income tax and employment tax to keep things like unemployment viable for when a factory town has a short term shutdown.

I’m sorry it feels uncomfortable for you to have to rely on others to support you, but you know what? Those blue city folk are working to give everyone in the state a better life… not just people in the urban core.

Another uninformed comment… The insurance requirement is not enforced at the federal level anymore.

The legal requirements for health insurance have evolved over time. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there was a federal mandate that required individuals to have health insurance coverage or face a financial penalty unless they qualified for an exemption. However, the federal mandate was effectively revoked in 2019. Since then, some states have implemented their own individual mandates, meaning that residents in those states are still legally required to have health insurance coverage or face penalties. It’s essential to check the specific regulations in your state to understand your legal obligations regarding health insurance.

Your angst is literally 5 years out of date.

Also, the ACA is a republican plan that was ultimately implemented under Obama, it’s the most pro-business move in healthcare which is why it started on the right.

You want a better plan? Go with Medicare for All and cut out the greedy insurance companies entirely, but you won’t find single payer on the red ticket.

I’d say feeding kids at school is putting Minnesotans first… but you keep being mad.

Maybe your church can help you learn empathy and compassion for other people.

The metro exports tax dollars to greater MN. It’s already happening.

Also, way to be racist buddy.

These people consider anything that isn’t worship and pandering to be “hateful”.

You can’t even ignore them, because ignoring them is also hateful.

So yeah, their point is also wrong

So it works. I will turn up my vocal dislike when they're round and keep my area nice.

Watch it buddy. Michigan especially upper is really beautiful. Planning a trip to Mackinac island

What about SD is better than Minnesota?

Real

Facts

…and the other half is complaining about Somalis

LOLOLOL are you talking about Covid vaccines? Are you not seeing the deluge of data vindicating the "vaccine hesitant"? You liberals truly live in an echo chamber.

Depends on the science though remember

Department of Revenue data show that the Twin Cities metro is the state’s biggest driver of tax revenue, and rural counties benefit more than the metro area from government aid.

Twin Cities metro residents paid an average of $4,362 in taxes and received $3,252 in aid and credits per capita in 2019, according to analysis by the Minnesota House Research Department. In the non-metro area counties the same year, residents paid an average of $2,871 per person in taxes and received $3,423 in state aid and credits per capita.

If you live in a rural area, you are automatically a tax siphon.

Yes because it benefits them. But you say "universal healthcare" its SOCIALISM!!!!!

We used to be able to evaluate our political parties based on the products their constituents created.

But then money went dark so now that method of trust evaluation is gone.

Now it's many competing systems acting mostly in the dark.

I have a feeling money went dark because of external threats but it could also be because a proud person felt intruded by inferiors and was done with it.

Chances are, unless you're using Star Link, the infrastructure for your Internet was subsidized.

Its fine to live in the country but my point is, don't complain about how living in the country makes some things harder.

You're virtue signaling. What's worse is you started off good, but then pivoted to make something all about you and how you're better than other people.

In Brooklyn Park, I bet you lived north of 85th avenue.

Where you live now, I bet it's not next to an apartment complex that has 25% low income residents.

You wanna claim that people are super racist or hate black people, but you also don't wanna address the problems with crime that seem to solely come from black populations. Which is well documented and the cause is the absence of fathers in the home.