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Direlion t1_j1w8e93 wrote

Reply to comment by unusedusername3 in After deadly Buffalo blizzard, families scramble to find food and essentials by PinkClouds20

The mayor was on TV yesterday and said the city was basically out of money. The mass shooting earlier this year required a huge amount of resources to manage all of the security, emergency services, legal costs, and so on. Not to mention the loss of business and tourism revenue. Now with the historic storm they just simply don't have enough resources to manage.

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IAmACatDude t1_j1wn33f wrote

Buffalo has some of the lowest property taxes for any major city in the country. The mayor won't raise taxes because the real estate developers are in his pocket. So the city crumbles.

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unusedusername3 t1_j1x0mez wrote

Oh yeah, I forgot that Buffalo is an old steel town that has had it's best days behind it.

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