According to this report, the debt would cost each resident of California $33,000 or each taxpayer $74,000And then there's the unfunded pension debt...the elephant in the room that no one talks about:https://calmatters.org/comment...And before you boast too much about California's budget surplus, let's not forget where $27 BILLION of it came from.....the Federal Govt's Covid bail-out. 

Not sure exactly what you asking here... the average is what is often skewed... the median indicates the most precise central tendency.If this data set represented the after tax pay of residents in the city of Smallville, notice how 1 through 6 are sort of in the same range, but 7 and 8 materially different. 

One of them put it very succinctly, "NYC will be inundated with rats & desperate taxpayer funded slaves to poverty".

This was at the cost of the average home owner and tax payer, since Fannie Mae and others were bailed out with your money and mine.   

It funny taxpayer money is used to bail out airlines, but in exchange they give us small seats, charge us for everything.

Why don't the council members build more homeless shelters, soup kitchens and provide a nice weekly allowance along with the food-stamps and other taxpayer-funded benefits? 

Maybe they will see you as low risk for audit and suggest option 1 or 2 to not attract attention.One approach to get the contractor to provide their social security number is tell them you are going to 1099 them and tell the IRS they refused to provide their tax payer ID number.

From the tax payer's standpoint, shortsales are best and I therefore promote and believe it shortsales, it is at least an attempt by the homeowner to come clean.

Proceeds from the sale were put into reserves and subsequently mostly spent on needed concrete parking lot replacement work, and we haven't budgeted for the tax payment we're being asked to pay. 

This would mean that you will pay the tax but there are two things that happen.first by starting the exchange in 2014 but not accepting the proceeds until 2015 as a cash based tax payer that is when the gain occurs.