The city should have the bare minimum equipment possible required to perform the functions required of it, because it's purchased from tax revenues, which are forcibly extracted from the population, and thus should be spent only on things that are necessary for the proper governance of the city.
Sure, web and print designers should have Macs if they need them but it's pretty clear that a lot of people who don't need them have them.
Yes, heaven forfend that a public employee should have anything more than the lowest possible standard of work and/or living.
This kind of thinking is shortsighted at best, for obvious reasons. I'm not saying they should all get two 24" monitors, but if all you give people is the bare minimum to do their job, for all the money that you save up front, I suspect you're not gonna get much more than the bare minimum in return.
______ employees should have the bare minimum equipment required to perform the functions required of it, because it's purchased from money that belongs to shareholders, which invested for the purpose of earning a return, and thus should be spent only on things that are necessary to support the business.
Sure, web and print designers should have Macs if they need them but it's pretty clear that a lot of people who don't need them have them.