Their first option will be to seek long-term gap funding in municipal bonds and then to increase business licenses, fees and increase business property tax. As a last resort, regular home owner property taxes.
They have to appear to keep the brunt of the gap funding maintenance costs off away from the private citizen homeowner - because they vote. The increase in prices to the consumer from these businesses who are the stuckee for the gap funding maintenance will be blamed on capitalist pig gouging.
People are going to learn really quick that businesses and corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers do. All the businesses and corporations do is to collect them for the government.
Because, after all the rhetoric is cleared away, this is in actuality what is occurring.