None should be getting free rent from the tax payer.
Well they do, and for a variety of reasons as others have pointed out to you.
They provide a benefit for the cities residents, whether it be recreation, or some other service the public enjoys for little or no cost.
what you propose is that the citizens "the city" build and maintain all these places and charge the appropriate fee for the publics use of them, which of course will negate the need for many of them completely.
Rather than try defend your hopeless position, you should admit that you never put much thought into it.
Imagen a city that ran according to your way of thinking. It would have NOTHING to offer it's citizens, no recreation, no community clubs, skating rinks, soccer fields, sports clubs, yacht clubs, womens centers, and charities run facilities of ANY sort.
Kids would have even LESS to do than they do now, they wouldn't even have scate board parks to contain their vandalizm, because they would have to pay to get into them.
Those kids, teens and young adults with nothing to do, and no money to pay for anything to do WILL find something to do, usually to YOUR property.
Plus it would be a real crappy city to live in.
All: don’t bother trumandogz with the facts; his mind is made up.