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I need to rant! The suburbs are a direct result of income extraction from the workings class and poor. They line our metropolitan centers like plantations on hills. They drive in on roads we built and then capitalize on our numbers. Their greed grows and grows. 
Healthcare providers build pools with Medicare payments. Restaurant owners cash in on low wages. Grocery chains flourish with SNAP dollars. Lawyers have a never ending income with the prison pipeline.
Income extraction. They take our resources to their comfy communities.
Income extraction. They take our resources to their comfy communities.
Their tax dollars fund top notch public education, while our city schools are underdunded because the tax base has moved on out. They cannot survive without us! The wealth generated from poverty is a nauseating epidemic. Aldi’s food is a good example of how this works.
They built low cost grocery stores in food desserts. Made a fortune from SNAP/WIC. As the rich moved out, they were positioned to move with them. In Toledo, all central city Aldi’s were shuttered and high end Aldi’s were renovated in the burbs. They built an empire off poverty.
How often do you use your local airport? Who uses your tax funded ports and docks? Locally we have a levy on our sewer service for infrastructure upgrades, yet the city manages to lay miles and miles of pipelines to serve the suburbs. The city could take care of itself if we
saddled with helping the suburbs expand. Strip malls are abandoned while new malls are built for the suburbanites. Downtown business districts are left to urban blight and we are asked to demolish city blocks for community safety. Income extraction. They suck every penny they can
