Cities all provide the same services; police protection, fire and life safety, community planning for livable neighborhoods, parks and recreation, and utilities like water, wastewater disposal and street safety and paving.  That's about it.  Each City is required to publish an annual financial report showing where the money goes.

As far as government employees being overpaid, you're talking about people that carry guns, save lives and have engineering degrees.  An engineer in a private sector job is typically paid double.

Then you have Comcast, providing cable shows and internet.  The executives at Comcast are paid multi-millions annually.  City employees are not, contrary to the rhetoric.  It would be great if people appreciated drinking water and parks as much as Game of Thrones and internet porn.  Cities are actually pretty freaking cool!

Christian Hill, the headline could read Comcast Loses Lawsuit and the article could explain how city dollars are invested to serve communities.