You got your cart before the horse. Rethink this and straighten out your traces. One could posit that is so rich because it treats its citizens like adults. Liberals think because the suburb is rich, it should spend its money. Hmmm, but then it would not have volunteer citizens, and that is quite important in our culture. Has been forever, it is one of the things that makes our nation great, and you can't buy it.
Spend a little time in Darien,Greenwich and New Canaan (three fantastically rich towns within a few miles of each other) and one of the things you'll notice is that the teenagers are driving the Bimmers and the adults are driving the Buggati Veyrons (one of the two Buggatis I've seen in my life I saw in Greenwich).
Priorities.
I,for one,don't mind saving a few pennies by buying day old bread....but I don't skimp on health care.And,curiously,the people of Darien skimp on the one thing you'd think they...top executives, physicians,surgeons and lawyers...wouldn't.
But that's just me I guess.