Yeah very true! Budget would dictate city resources more than population anyway (though budgets would also scale with population density (bigger tax base) and g

Yeah very true! Budget would dictate city resources more than population anyway (though budgets would also scale with population density (bigger tax base) and greater need for city resources in a perfect world). I might have overstated that case a bit in my previous comment. To note, however: I did some very preliminary research on city budgets for Philly and SF. I'm still scrolling through PDFs from the SF Comptroller's office, but phila.gov gives me this handy visual breakdown: http://www.phila.gov/openbudget/ http://www.phila.gov/openbudget/