>>1902515>But the financial problems of those townships seem to do nothing with the nearby citiesI never said it was an issue within the jurisdiction of Philadelphia, but within these constituent municipalities themselves
>(who aren't subsidizing anything contrary to Marohn's claims, and wherever the funding came from it was not Philadelphia taxpayers)As I stated, 3 of the townships ran into the problem of funding infrastructure due to a lack of a substantial taxable commercial/business base. Two had enough land aside to turn into landfills. One already developed most of their land and had trouble maintaining infrastructure through much of its history and, from what I've been told, had to take out state/federal loans to actually get it done.
>and the crumbling economy seems more toward the issue of the city's financial hardship than anything else.Levittown is by-and-large a bedroom community split between 4 townships and not within the municipal jurisdiction of Philadelphia. There wasn't much of a local economy to tax from to begin with. And what commercial is being taxed, there certainly hasn't been a downturn in local business, if that's what you're implying.