NYC is on verge of fiscal cliff because officials spend like drunken...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : unless action is taken now," they wrote.
54% : (The rest of the city's $111.1 billion budget comes from state and federal taxpayers, who are, of course, also us.)
51% : This year, the city will spend $13.3 billion on health and other benefits for workers and retirees -- up 37% from a decade ago. Former mayor Bill de Blasio supposedly did a deal with unions in which workers were supposed to work with the city to control healthcare-cost growth -- but a deal to transfer retirees to a managed-care Medicare plan is still tied up in court.

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