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...crisis. In his first term, he increased the number of city employees by nearly 12%, and most of the 3,787 jobs he created were patronage positions. In 1975 he granted 20,000 city workers a 12.8% pay hike, while insisting that Philadelphia had no financial problems. Yet one momth after beginning his second term, Rizzo discovered a budget deficit of $80 million and proclaimed a "fiscal emergency." Since then he has asked for 20% increases in city payroll taxes, boosts of up to 50% in real estate taxes, and a raise in transit fares from...
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