63 of the 75 biggest cities in the US are broke

[OfTheCross]

This year, the study found that 63 cities do not have enough money to pay all of their bills, and in total, the cities have racked up $323 billion in municipal debt. The study ranks the cities according to their Taxpayer Burden or Taxpayer Surplus™, which is each taxpayer's share of city bills after available assets have been tapped.

Here are the rankings (from best to worst):

Click on the city’s name to learn more about it on Data-Z

1. Irvine Taxpayer Surplus: $4,100

2. Washington, D.C. Taxpayer Surplus: $3,500

3. Charlotte Taxpayer Surplus: $3,400

4. Fresno Taxpayer Surplus: $3,200

5. Plano Taxpayer Surplus: $2,800

6. Stockton Taxpayer Surplus: $2,600

7. Lincoln Taxpayer Surplus: $2,500

8. Aurora Taxpayer Surplus: $2,200

9. Arlington Taxpayer Surplus: $2,100

10. Tampa Taxpayer Surplus: $1,700

11. Raleigh Taxpayer Surplus: $1,400

12. Tulsa Taxpayer Surplus: $100

13. Corpus Christi Taxpayer Burden: $300

14. Oklahoma City Taxpayer Burden: $400

15. Long Beach Taxpayer Burden: $500

16. Greensboro Taxpayer Burden: $700

17. San Antonio Taxpayer Burden: $1,100

18. Wichita Taxpayer Burden: $1,200

19. Louisville Taxpayer Burden: $1,300

20. Bakersfield Taxpayer Burden: $1,600

21. Fort Wayne Taxpayer Burden: $1,700

22. Minneapolis Taxpayer Burden: $1,900

23. Henderson Taxpayer Burden: $1,900

24. Las Vegas Taxpayer Burden: $2,100

25. Virginia Beach Taxpayer Burden: $2,100

26. Colorado Springs Taxpayer Burden: $2,300

27. Chula Vista Taxpayer Burden: $2,300

28. Orlando Taxpayer Burden: $2,300

29. Saint Paul Taxpayer Burden: $2,300

30. Riverside Taxpayer Burden: $3,300

31. Austin Taxpayer Burden: $3,300

32. Indianapolis Taxpayer Burden: $3,500

33. Memphis Taxpayer Burden: $3,700

34. El Paso Taxpayer Burden: $3,900

35. Los Angeles Taxpayer Burden: $4,000

36. Toledo Taxpayer Burden: $4,100

37. San Diego Taxpayer Burden: $4,500

38. Sacramento Taxpayer Burden: $4,600

39. Columbus Taxpayer Burden: $4,800

40. Cleveland Taxpayer Burden: $5,100

41. Detroit Taxpayer Burden: $5,100

42. Mesa Taxpayer Burden: $5,300

43. Santa Ana Taxpayer Burden: $5,400

44. Seattle Taxpayer Burden: $5,400

45. Phoenix Taxpayer Burden: $5,500

46. Albuquerque Taxpayer Burden: $5,800

47. Anaheim Taxpayer Burden: $6,200

48. Denver Taxpayer Burden: $6,500

49. Omaha Taxpayer Burden: $7,100

50. Anchorage Taxpayer Burden: $7,800

51. Tucson Taxpayer Burden: $8,100

52. Jacksonville Taxpayer Burden: $8,500

53. Lexington Taxpayer Burden: $9,100

54. Dallas Taxpayer Burden: $9,400

55. San Jose Taxpayer Burden: $9,400

56. Kansas City, MO Taxpayer Burden: $9,800

57. Atlanta Taxpayer Burden: $9,900

58. Boston Taxpayer Burden: $10,200

59. Miami Taxpayer Burden: $10,600

60. Houston Taxpayer Burden: $11,600

61. Fort Worth Taxpayer Burden: $12,300

62. Milwaukee Taxpayer Burden: $12,800

63. St. Louis Taxpayer Burden: $14,500

64. Pittsburgh Taxpayer Burden: $15,600

65. Cincinnati Taxpayer Burden: $15,600

66. Baltimore Taxpayer Burden: $16,000

67. San Francisco Taxpayer Burden: $17,000

68. Nashville Taxpayer Burden: $18,400

69. Portland Taxpayer Burden: $18,400

70. Oakland Taxpayer Burden: $18,600

71. New Orleans Taxpayer Burden: $18,800

72. Philadelphia Taxpayer Burden: $25,500

73. Honolulu Taxpayer Burden: $26,400

74. Chicago Taxpayer Burden: $37,100

75. New York City Taxpayer Burden: $63,100


2020 Financial State of the Cities

 

[Pressure]

Charlotte

 

[Serious]

Charlotte

 

[the cac mamba]

it's a shame that democrats are held hostage by the unions in these cities

gonna need to take a hard look at pension reform in the next couple decades

 

[the cac mamba]

75. New York City Taxpayer Burden: $63,100

who would have thought that promising millions an 80% pension for the rest of their life when they turn 55 would have ended up being unsustainable

 

[FAH1223]

why we need UBI

 

[Strapped]

Just put more cops on bikes to write more traffic tickets

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

what the hell methodology is this? bush this thread, any list having fresno and stockton as "best" in anything, aside from best garbage city, is null and void. is this the equivalent of NBA advanced analytics for cities?

stockton fukking went bankrupt, is chronically depressed, has unemployment rate 76% higher than the national average...i could go on

 

[Serious]

Just put more cops on bikes to write more traffic tickets

@88m3

 

[88m3]

non issue for NY and I would suspect for most of the larger cities



having a surplus is pretty meaningless

 

[radio rahiem]

who would have thought that promising millions an 80% pension for the rest of their life when they turn 55 would have ended up being unsustainable

Nothing to do with unions and everything to do with mismanagement

 

[Strapped]

Venezuela's oil & bolivian minerals might fix it

 

[the cac mamba]

non issue for NY and I would suspect for most of the larger cities

might be the worst post i've ever seen. the issue is DIRECTLY REFLECTED in their disgusting taxes on everything/property taxes. that money is literally, specifically to pay for this shyt how much is it to cross the GW bridge?

and not even singling out NYC, fukk that. sub out any city. they all extort their citizens with exorbitant taxes to keep this shyt propped up

 

[the cac mamba]

Nothing to do with unions and everything to do with mismanagement

oh, so unions are open to acknowledging that the pension structure they've negotiated on the back of the private sector is unsustainable?

good to know

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

DC