“In the inaugural release of the TIA’s rankings Long Beach was just one of seven cities nationally that would have a surplus leftover if it paid all of its bills, with those figures being based off of 2015 financial disclosures. This year, Long Beach slipped a bit with its tax-payer surplus going away and its tax-payer burden—the dollar amount each tax-payer would owe if the city were to pay its bills at once—grew to about $1,500 per person.”