Posted on 11/02/2006 1:17:20 AM PST by Exton1
Questionable City Spending
San Francisco has a $5 Billon budget! That is $6,500 for every Man, Woman, and Child that lives in the City, and if you’re not paying your share in taxes then someone else is.
This is a bigger budget than 20 states in the USA. Oklahoma has a $5 Billon budget and they have 5 million people to help pay for it, which works out to about $1,000 per person, which is the average across the Country to support a state government. San Francisco is just a city.
During a 40 hour work week, the City would need to take out about $3.00 per hour from your paycheck, for you to pay your share in a year.
If a business had to pay the taxes for a family of four, they would need to pay the City $26,000 a year, or the pay of one employee.
Remember for every dollar that goes to pay the City’s bills is one dollar that does not go to an employee or into to buying a product.
Although some of this money will find itself back into the City’s economy, for ever $3 Dollars the City takes in, it waste about $1.
What has the Board of Supervisors found to spend our tax dollars on that is more pressing than our schools or for street maintenance? Here are some examples.
Demonstrating the efficient use of condoms $486,081?
Studying HIV prevalence and prevention in Zimbabwe Beer halls $303,774?
Providing advocacy and legal services for illegal aliens $2,510,800?
(In other words our tax dollares are paying to fight the deportation of Illegal Aliens.)
Transgender cultural competency training $75,000?
We have the highest number of City employees per resident in the country, about one employee for every 30 people. An average city of our size should have about 5,000 city workers, San Francisco has close to 30,000 city workers.
Leni
Does that mean Gomorrah became Oakland?
Leni
WoW!
I just did a quick search and found that the 2006-2007 FY budget is $5.7 million. For the entire State of Alaska it's $5.14 million. Yes, SF has more people, but we have 586,000 square miles. But we're also a solid Republican state. In SF, the inmates run the asylum.
These SF City employees are in a heated discussion over ways to reduce the City budget. Bruce, a Grade IV Community Outreach Facilitator, advocates abolishing the Condom Demonstration Project and returning to barebacking. "Raincoats are for heteros," he said. Mayor Newsome said, "We need more City employees to exhibitionist this kind of collaboration and innovative thinking."
I wonder how much of that $5 billion comes from the federal trough.
"I wonder how much of that $5 billion comes from the federal trough."
A lot.
Good old Kalifornia... the land of fruits and nuts.
There is not a day that goes by that I don't wish I were somewhere else (with my extended family)
I'm about twenty minutes from Sodom on the bay (and the answer is YES about Oakland!) and I can tell you that this is NOT a fun place to live for a right wing CHRISTian.
I guess the only good thing that could come from if (which we will not) we lost the war on terror at least the muslims would wipe out SF for starters ;)
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It is possible that they pay more in federal taxes than they receive. But large cities tend to be quite good at obtaining federal grants and subsidies of many sorts, especially for things such as "mass transit". I wonder how many federal dollars go into the BART system, for example.
I recall ... don't remember the source ... that the large city "mass transit" systems cost 4-5 dollars per passenger mile, and had fees that were only a small fraction of that.
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