How many citizens of White Center are underpaid?Overtaxed?Incapable of getting a loan for college?What percentage of Laurelhurt's citizens are red-carpet babies?Korporate-Welfare recipients?Who represents the Lower Class in Seattle's city council?King County Council?

So they're getting two dollars worth of service for every tax dollar they pay? Isn't this the sort of welfare that the Stranger opposes in rural WA?

@3, No--I'm thinking there's a growing resentment among urban liberals for continuing to support rural Republicans who claim to hate 'hand outs' and who want to 'run government like a business', and that the Stranger editorial board has been calling out the gap between taxes paid into the system and services received for some time now.

Plus I feel certain that if White Center was annexed, and then started receiving fifty cents on the dollar, they'd complain loudly and often.

@4: thanks for your interpretation of what other people think, even when you're told that it's not true. There is not "growing resentment among urban liberals for continuing to support rural Republicans who claim to hate 'hand outs'"; there's an annoyance at a bratty subculture that refuses to acknowledge the facts, and which continues to act against their own best interests at the behest of special interests.

If you want to live in a rural area, and get more taxes out of the system than you put in, fine; that's the way the system works. Rural areas are more expensive than urban areas, because of lower population density. Again, that's fine, and understood. But don't try to then complain about people who take more out of the system.

It's like this: say I was handing out free sodas to everyone on the street; you can't take one, enjoy it, then complain that I shouldn't give one to another person because they didn't do enough for it. If you do, you're just being an asshole.