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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by sk5t on Saturday April 18, 2020 @04:16PM (#22910743)
How does a town of 35K people raise $300MM in annual tax? $8,500 per capita seems very, very high.
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Re:We've Built Cities We Can't Afford by michaelmrose on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:51PM (#22911407)
It has a biennial budget of 197 million usd. That is to say a budget for every 2 years.

It has a population of 38,511. The budget works out to aprox $2558 per person.

Per capita income is just shy of 20k

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