daca ie neproductive si cu randamente mici asa le trebe, da-le draq.
ne tot mute media la cap ca productivitatea la voi ie mult mai mare ca acilea, asa o fi bre balubo?
Numai in unele parti, bre corollo.
In altele o mana de puleti falimenteaza un oras.
Reteta e simpla, nu trebuie dacat neste amploaiati cu gura mare si niste politicieni currupti.
A fost aplicata in Stckton, California si a inregistrat un supces rasunator. Azi au anuntat ca au dat faliment.
The Stockton City Council yesterday approved a petition for bankruptcy, the largest of a city in U.S. history. Municipalities all over the country are in fiscal distress, but few are actually declaring bankruptcy. What went so badly wrong in Stockton, and what lessons can other cities learn?
The best overview of Stockton’s troubles comes from California Common Sense, a think tank that identifies the factors that combined to drive the city into bankruptcy:
First, Stockton had a huge property bubble, with median home prices rising 200 percent between 2000 and 2006. This flooded the city’s coffers with property tax revenues. Assuming the trend would continue, officials signed employee contracts that proved unaffordable. The city even agreed to a “heads you win, tails we lose” pay structure tied to the city’s tax receipts: In strong revenue years, workers got 7 percent raises, but even if revenues declined, they got 2.5 percent raises.
Then Stockton had a huge property bust. The median home price in Stockton fell 70 percent from 2006 to 2009 (i.e., back to 2000 levels). In many states, municipalities raise property tax rates when values fall; that’s illegal in California, so plummeting home prices meant plummeting tax receipts. But even as tax receipts were falling, compensation costs per employee continued to rise; in recent years, the city sharply cut headcount, but still could not close its budget deficits.
Making matters worse, says the think tank, in 2007 Stockton issued $125 million in pension obligation bonds. As in other jurisdictions that tried to “fix” their pension problems with bonds in the last decade (see Woonsocket, Rhode Island), this backfired: The assets Stockton bought with the bond proceeds declined in value, and the city is stuck with both a pension liability and a bond liability. And that pension liability has been a major driver of the city’s insolvency.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-27/why-stockton-is-bankrupt-but-your-town-here-isn-t.html
