Alan Healy: If taxes stayed local, Hollyhill's streets would be paved with gold

Every country has this argument. Nobody ever wins it.

Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “I’ve always rejected attempts to create an artificial divide between rural Ireland and urban Ireland."

The debate about who pays for what is one that every country has had at some point. 

In Italy, it surfaces as the prosperous north believing they subsidise the southern regions. Across the United States, the 'coastal elites' fight it out with 'heartland conservatives' arguing about who built this country.