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We aren't against the government totally, just most forms of it. Money goes from urban to rural areas mostly for simple reasons that get adressed anyways by the government and that nobody really complains about.
1) The biggest reason that money goes from urban to rural areas is welfare, but seeing as most intelligent conservatives are absolutely anti-welfare, i would have to assume this goes to the liberal crowd. This goes on the assumption that sombody who lives on welfare doesn't want to vote for anti-welfare politians. And a larger number of people on welfare in rural areas are on welfare for greater ammounts of time in rural areas per capita.
2) The other two really big ones are simply roads and schools. There are more miles of road in a rural area per person than in a city. Rural roadways just don't work in the same way as a city road. True, that rural roads get a lot more traffic, but most rural governments use this as a reason to path roads more often with a thinner layer of blacktop. Exactly what this detail means to road maintinence cost per capita traffic, I don't know.
3)Schools also recieve a greater ammount of money per student in rural areas than in urban areas and suburban areas. However suburban areas and urban areas both get much more money locally. This is simply a government ballancing issue in order to attempt to make sure that all schools are well funded. It is also worth noting that rural schools tend to have a lower quality of equipment installed than urban schools, and a much lower student to teacher ratio, and a much higher grade point average. This is especially true in middleground states such as Ohio, Florida, and Mishigan, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. In cities such as West Virginia, Texas, California, New York, Alabama, New Jersey, and others of polar alignment it tends to not be so much so(a notable exception would be Rhode Island). Most of the states I mentioned are also very geograpically close to one another if that means anything. Also those states tend to be of more mixed urban and rural demographics. Texas and Alabama are both really rural overall, and New Yourk is very Urban overall.
the point being here that Conservatives aren't complaining about poor schools getting money, and roads being built thoughout the nation. We are complaining about Welfare and other unfair social programs that are unfair to the system. Giving poor schools money is helping them help themselves. We stand for that. We may be somewhat cold about them not being willing to help themselves with the money given, especially if those schools have to spend their money on metal detectors and security guards and drug searches. Roads are a necessary to the transportation and communication infastructure of our nation now, and must be managed properly.