Show cit cities au S spend spen more than han taxes axes ya yield 4 e 1 l d municipalities increase indebtedness debt edness per capita washington the cities of tile country generally gene kally there ure are exceptions fire not living within their incomes census bureau statistics announced indicate A t compilation of revenues and expenditures tures in tile the fiscal year 1022 for the lie having a population ot of or more shows a total indebtedness incurred that year amounting to arg for or each resident the cost of government per capita including expenditures tures for permanent improvements amounted to for the year revenues of the total figures being and 2 respectively the total net indebtedness at the close of tile ye year arwas was or 9 per capita per capita cost the total cost of government in 1022 was waa highest in cities having 11 population of or over with a per capita cost 0 oa tile tho next lilg highest liest per capita is shown for cities with a on of to tile per cal capita ta cost of cities from to amounted to of cities from to and in the small cities having a population of to comparable statistics for of the principal cities show the per capita cost has bus increased from in 1918 1018 to in 1922 1022 an analysis of tho the costs of the city governments shows the per capita cost for or maintenance and operation of general departments was waa the principal item and amounted to tile the per capita cost of permanent improvements was 1595 new york the country count rys largest city came through the year with a surplus of revenues rov clues of per capita over expenditures but the per capita net indebtedness amounted to chi cagos revenues lacked per capita of meeting tier her expenditures but her net indebtedness amounts to only 40 30 per capita philadelphia third largest city ended the year with a per capita deficit of and a per capita net indebtedness of largest per capita surplus among cities with a population of or more seattle had the high hig I 1 iest iese per capita revenue receipts amounting to boston was second with los angeles third with and now new york fourth with the four cities with lowest per cup capita ita revenues were birmingham 2538 Itea reading ding 2013 11 1 san antonio 2020 and nashville 2801 the highest per capita capit a cost of government erni nent was at detroit where it amounted to seattle was second with and los log angeles third w ith in nil all of these cities large outlays for permanent Improve improvements me ants were made in ali year bear the four cities with lowest per capita costs were san antonio 2505 2565 birmingham ham 2895 scranton 2903 and I heading intending detroit showed showe d the largest per capita deficit with Nor norfolk was next with rochester third with 1910 nna anu youngstown fourth with 18 1805 5 st louis had the largest per capita surplus with 1116 spokane showed boston find and cincinnati |