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Why isn't it appropriate? I don't see anything qualitatively different about either of those things from other forms of wealth redistribution.


The grandparent said that they were both equally appropriate, presumably with the argument being that since there is no push to charge rural areas a "green access fee" to build parks in cities, the opposite shouldn't apply either.

One could argue that the very highway the grandparent lives by is a government-provided service to make it possible for him to go camping, but I don't know how the cost of building highways is shouldered by rural vs urban areas.


Wealth redistribution schemes utilizing a means test are qualitatively different from those that do not.




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