San Jose budget: $3,190,187,604
Pop: 1,016,479
$3138&#x2F;cap<p>Dallas TX budget: $2,806,427,228
Pop: 1,281,047
$2190&#x2F;cap<p>Jacksonville FL budget: $2,166,068,795
Pop: 861,252
$2515&#x2F;cap<p>Closest cities I could find on wikipedia.<p>San Jose gets plenty of money from its citizens.  Like most of CA, it has fallen into a pension liability trap.  Wringing more money out of people who have lived there for decades will only drag it on for a few more years until they have to stop making fully-funded pension promises they can not keep long-term.