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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Higher population = larger tax base = more money for schools, infrastructure and the like.

This is why you don’t generally see counties or municipalities urging people to leave.

Quite the contrary, actually.[/quote]

Two things:

1) It only results in proper school funding/infrastructure from the additional tax revenue if the population is not a net burden, requiring more incremental infrastructure/school capacity/services than they provide in that tax revenue.

2) To ensure the necessary infrastructure, impact taxes or the like would need to be adequate, both to offset any expected net loss (as above) and to provide the funding that would be required with more upfront timing to decrease, preferably eliminate, any lag between the needs of the additional population and the associated availability of infrastructure/services to meet that need.[/quote]

But do you have any evidence that these two conditions won’t be satisfied here?

As a general matter, a higher population and larger tax base results in [i]better[/i] infrastructure in the long run through [b]economies of scale[/b].

This is one of the reasons localities generally encourage residents to come, not leave.

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Yeah, the economy of scale hasn’t worked out so well for our high school students. Particularly the ones that will be forced to go to school in an Amazon office building. It also hasn’t worked out so well for our aging sewer system. The concerns about flooding were one of the reasons the judge overturned MM zoning in Arlington. Kinda hard to use “economy of scale” where there is no extra land and old water/sewer.[/quote]

Perhaps Arlington NIMBYs shouldn’t have opposed a new high school …[/quote]

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