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    "https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf055",
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  "textContent": "In planning, you'll often hear that having a variety of suburbs with diverse approaches to taxation and service provision is good — that it lets people \"vote with their feet\" for their preferred approach to governance. Well, I'm skeptical.\n\n* * *\n\nPatreon — a way to directly support my ability to talk about what I want to talk about every week, and get out to the cities I want to highlight. Much appreciation to all of you who are already patrons!\n\nhttps://www.patreon.com/CityNerd\n\n* * *\n\nThe primary resource and jumping-off point for this video is the following paper and web tool, and thanks so much to the authors for being generous with their expertise!\n\nRobert Manduca, Brian Highsmith, Jacob Waggoner, Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality, Socio-Economic Review, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 331–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf055\n\nExplore the Tax Base Fragmentation website here: https://www.taxbasefragmentation.net/\n\nOther Resources:\n\n  * Citizens United (crying emoji) https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep558/usrep558310/usrep558310.pdf\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nImages, mostly mine as usual, BUT:\n\n  * Thumbnail via Getty — Credit: Wei Fang,Creative #: 2179506119\n\n  * NYPD By Jason Lawrence - https://www.flickr.com/photos/27665395@N05/37580678874/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64973230\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nInstagram: @nerd4cities\n\nBlueSky: @nerd4cities\n\nThreads: @nerd4cities\n\nLinkedIn: /raydelahanty\n\n* * *\n\nMusic:\nCityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)\n\n* * *\n\nBusiness Inquiries: thecitynerd@nebula.tv",
  "title": "Why Tax Base Fragmentation Is a Serious Problem"
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