What's worth noting is that Scarsdale is a choice residential location for well off NY professionals who are apparently more than keen to pay high local taxes in order to have the privilege of living in a community with excellent public services. The inconsistency between this "collectivist preference" and the rhetoric (promoted by these same people) that government, taxes and anything remotely socialist should be done away with is truly incongruous.
Looks like I'm now blogging all the time...