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Originally Posted by pip
two thoughts. You cannot compare budgets like that. Some things are on budget and some things are off, some cities have things covered by the county and/or state and some cities don't.
also its mighty rich of you to take a swipe at higher tax states when Arizona is a bottom feeder. If Illinois were treated as grandly as Arizona we would have an extra 36+ billion a year to play with. Or even dollar for dollar we would have an extra 10-12 billion a year. Lets say we got treated to a free ride equal to your state, our budget is roughly 30 billion a year, we would have no state taxes what so ever and we would get a refund. Can only dream.
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New York City is not paying for things that the City of Phoenix is not, as a general rule. In fact, I know New York State's budget is many times higher per capita than Arizona's state budget as well. This is why a typical home in New York pays $15,000 per year in property taxes and in Arizona, $1,500.
Just face it...many other states have too high of a tax burden, and Arizona has too low of a burden.
As for Illinois, at least your freeways were largely paid for by the Feds. Our beltways are not. We had to pass a half cent sales tax to get our freeways. This is why Arizona beltways don't have interstate designations. We also have a lot more Indians and military bases out here than Illinois, which explains some of the federal largesse that comes to Arizona.
--don