NYC in fact pays far more into state coffers than it takes out, although it subsidizes Upstate to a lesser extent per capita than the suburbs.

Moreover, most of the high-paid government jobs in NYC are held disproportionately by suburbanites. In past decades, many of the senior citizens who benefitted from NYC’s expensive Medicaid spending were the parents of suburbanites who did not care for them.

And, the city must increasingly fund the public services required by lower-paid workers who work in the suburbs, but are not permitted to live there due to zoning rules that limit two-family homes and multiple dwellings.