Sun, 04/14/2024 - 06:47 Tech Insider Economy Politics City and state governments across America are facing a nasty budget crunch as property taxes fall and new expenses add up.iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tags economy, politics, Discourse, state-budgets, city-budgets, Pandemic, commercial-real-estate, tax-revenue, Taxes, cares-act, american-rescue-plan, Discourse, real-estate, office-apocalypse, urban-doom-loop, bi-illustration, rebecca-zisser Source America's cities had a way to escape the 'doom loop.' Then they blew it.