Truth in Accounting has released its 2020 Financial State of Cities report, highlighting the fiscal health of America's 75 most populous cities. Statista's Niall McCarthy notes that the study found that this year, 63 cities do not have enough money to pay their bills and total municipal debt now stands at $323 billion.
It ranked the cities according to their taxpayer burden or surplus which is the amount each taxpayer would have to pay to clear municipal debt with nothing, such as benefits and services, in exchange.
New York has $62.7 billion available to pay $249.4 billion worth of bills which breaks down to a burden of $63,100 per taxpayer.
In Chicago, each taxpayer would have to pay $63,100 in future taxes without anything in return while Hononulu has the third-highest burden at $26,400.
Some cities are run better than others with Irvine, California and Washington D.C. notable examples. The former has a surplus of $4,100 per taxpayer while D.C. has a surplus of $3,500.
#1: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#0)
They all lie thru their teeth. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-08 08:49:36 Reply Private Reply
#2: Cynicom To: BTP Holdings (#1)
If Trump ever gets vouchers for students, this local cancer would be closed.
Cynicom posted on 2020-02-08 09:03:43 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: Cynicom (#2)
I knew a woman in NYC. She had her son in private school since I guess public schools were in the toilet there.
She wanted to send her kid out here to me so she could go to Syria as a cook for the U.N.
I put the kabosh on that real quick. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-08 09:14:03 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-02-08 09:27:22 Reply Private Reply
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Darkwing posted on 2020-02-08 09:43:46 Reply Private Reply
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Horse posted on 2020-02-08 11:00:06 Reply Private Reply
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