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A lot of this is hard to measure against one another. Is the city-county consolidated? Are the public schools included in the city budget, or are they their own entity for budget purposes?
What services are delivered by the city and what by the county? Is water/sewer included in the general budget, or is it its own enterprise fund? City police or metro/county police? Are health services state, local, county?
Many states (feds too) cover expensive things in cities like public transport, highways, airport, water sewer, some types of police, etc.. This list is probably not too accurate for comparison of actual spending on cities.
I can think of 3 reasons. I might be wrong but doesn't LA has county or municipal taxes or something? NYC doesn't have that extra layer of government, we have no counties. Plus, NYC is very centralized so all the businesses and employees come into the city, as opposed to LA where a lot of the stuff is outside the city limits. Third, Wall street.
??? NYC budget deficit is only like 1-2% a year, even under the spender DeBlasio.
Didn't NYC have a surplus of 1 Billion dollars for 2016?
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