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CITIES HAVE HEAVIEST RELIANCE ON LOCAL TAXES <br />Over the past decade, cities have had every incentive to be frugal in their spending <br />patterns. Federal and state assistance to them has declined and they have been <br />forced to rely more heavily on their local tax bases. The argument that city officials <br />are not accountable for their spending is absurd in light of the evidence that city <br />spending in real dollars has not increased, but local taxes have. <br />As indicated in Chart 8, cities' heavy reliance on local taxes is in sharp contrast <br />to how other local units of goverm,lent in Minnesota finance their expenditures. Ac- <br />cording to State Auditor's information, while cities raise 63 percent of their revenues <br />locally, counties raise only 46 percent of their revenues locally and school districts <br />raise only 44 percent locally. <br />WIT <br />NtexcsmR LWcwUWBT RrvENurs <br />an <br />14 <br />