Why California Budgets Rise Even as Populations Drop
Creating social problems to spend money to steal money;
By Daniel Greenfield —— Bio and Archives--June 7, 2026
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In 2018, there were 870,044 people in San Francisco and after years of decline, that number fell to an estimated 826,079 last year. A 5% population decline should have led to a spending decline, but instead the city budget shot up from $11 billion to $16 billion.
This was up from a $6.8 billion budget in 2012 for a roughly similar population of 828.963.
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