g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 1 After Detroit, Who's Next?
For years Detroit has been gutting services and sucking taxpayers dry to
finance retirement and debt obligations. Nearly 70% of parks have been
closed since 2008, and four in 10 street lights don't work. The city has cut
its police force by 40% in a decade. ......
......
While few municipalities are as economically depressed or dilapidated as
Detroit, many have borrowed heavily, raised taxes and hollowed out services
to pay retirement and debt obligations. Some like Detroit may soon decide
that clipping bondholders and pensioners is a better option than to keep
whacking taxpayers.
Take Oakland, which is Detroit's doppelganger on the West Coast ......
Philadelphia and Chicago have been less scrupulous about financing pensions
and are now having to make balloon payments to prevent their retirement
funds from going broke.
Philadelphia is spending about 20% of its budget on pensions to make up for
years of short-changing the system ......
Chicago is also fast approaching a day of reckoning. Chicago Public Schools
last week announced 2,100 layoffs, which Mayor Rahm Emanuel blamed on a $400
million spike in pension payments. "The pension crisis is no longer around
the corner," he said. "It has arrived at our schools."
Moody's downgraded the city's general-obligation bonds last week due in
large part to rising retirement and debt service costs, which comprise about
a third of its operating budget. Chicago plans to dump 30,000 retirees on
Medicare and the ObamaCare exchanges in 2017. Yet all savings will go toward
pension payments, which will triple in 2015. The mayor has warned that the
bill could force a 150% spike in property taxes. ......
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/detroit-whos-next-234500497.html | m********s
发帖数: 55301 | 2 按顺序应该是
芝加哥》洛杉矶》休斯敦》DC》波士顿》纽约
cut
services
【在 g******4 的大作中提到】
: After Detroit, Who's Next?
: For years Detroit has been gutting services and sucking taxpayers dry to
: finance retirement and debt obligations. Nearly 70% of parks have been
: closed since 2008, and four in 10 street lights don't work. The city has cut
: its police force by 40% in a decade. ......
: ......
: While few municipalities are as economically depressed or dilapidated as
: Detroit, many have borrowed heavily, raised taxes and hollowed out services
: to pay retirement and debt obligations. Some like Detroit may soon decide
: that clipping bondholders and pensioners is a better option than to keep
| b*x
发帖数: 5456 | 3 所有城市的共性， 是蓝色区。
47% 多。
【在 m********s 的大作中提到】
: 按顺序应该是
: 芝加哥》洛杉矶》休斯敦》DC》波士顿》纽约
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: cut
: services
| a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 4 差不多。再不行动，chicago 就麻烦了
【在 m********s 的大作中提到】
: 按顺序应该是
: 芝加哥》洛杉矶》休斯敦》DC》波士顿》纽约
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: cut
: services
| l******g
发帖数: 6771 | 5 伊州呢，呵呵
【在 a*****g 的大作中提到】
: 差不多。再不行动，chicago 就麻烦了
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