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Re:Why Many Cities Have No Money by milesskorpen on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:21PM (#13371477)
Probably wealthy + dense — I'd guess NYC, SF, Seattle, Chicago are on the list. Not sure what else would get up there.
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Re:Why Many Cities Have No Money by nhebb on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:39PM (#13371560)
According to this ranking, Chicago and NYC are at the bottom:

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/01/09/How-Strong-Are-Your...

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Re:Why Many Cities Have No Money by milesskorpen on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:52PM (#13371622)
The includes pensions, which are separate issues — the Strong Towns piece is basically looking at property tax annually / cost of maintaining infrastructure annually (and ignores deferments and the like)
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