Since he's been spending so much time talking about the presidential race and the biggest form of government, John Oliver decided to spend part of Sunday's Last Week Tonight turning his attention to special districts, those small units of government with the power to use tax dollars to do one specific thing.
Sometimes called ghost governments, they can be set up for almost any purpose, Oliver said, and there are 40,000 across the United States spending $100 billion a year. In some areas, several districts overlap, and it's possible neighbors don't even pay the same rates; as Oliver pointed out, he found one person who paid $1,000 as part of an irrigation special district, while his neighbor across the street that was part of a different district only had to fork over $7.
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