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Thursday, August 01, 2019

Baltimore's 30,000 Public Employees Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion But Can't Save Their Own City

President Donald Trump’s recent tweet about Baltimore ignited a firestorm of controversy. Baltimore has since become the focal point of a very public fight between Trump and local congressman Elijah Cummings (MD-7).

People on both sides have strong views about Trump’s motives. However, on one level, Trump served to highlight the videos of a local political activist Kimberly Klacik. These videos revealed Baltimore’s systemic problems of rats, abandoned buildings, and trash. Klacik reported that many of the city’s residents feel that they have been forgotten.

Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com investigated just how much taxpayer money flows into the Baltimore bureaucracy at every level: federal, state, and local. We found the city drowning in taxpayer dollars.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

All the rats are being drawn out from the darkness. For decades these so called "CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY"have been lying and lining their POCKETS.

Anonymous said...

Can you imagine trying to audit that mess??

The jails would be full to overflowing.

Anonymous said...


30,000 employees? The ex-mayor was really a dummy. She'd have needed a second print run if she'd had each employee buy just one copy of her lively and insightful book!

Anonymous said...

Total GDP for Baltimore/Towson/Columbia was 192,178,000,000 in 2017 so...

Anonymous said...

Hogan what are you doing to hold these people accountable? Hogan why are you supporting these incompetent wasteful spending of tax dollars?