It really depends how you define unfair, and the context surrounding it.

Is it unfair because there is corruption and misuse of tax dollars? In which case, yeah that’s a pretty big problem and people need to be removed and even go to jail.

Is it unfair because your municipality is about to go bankrupt? No not really because you don’t have a choice at that point. The failures that brought this about should probably result in the removal of people regardless.

Unfortunately, many municipalities in the US are going bankrupt largely because of corporate greed and the negligence of those counties from pushing back against it. Making this a pretty widespread problem as you have also noticed.

Things like:

• lower tax rates for large corporate entities who are affecting/clearing out local business.
• Money leaving the community because money spent at large corporate owned businesses does not cycle back through the local economy. Which reduces the viability of the local economy and local businesses which reduces municipal tax income, without reducing the municipal financial burden.
• Classic parking lot sprawl that often brings in low tax revenue and has extremely high municipality maintenance costs…etc)
• corporations reaping local natural resources but not having hefty taxes levied against them so that the community benefits from it
• …etc

Ultimately, this has its roots back in corporate greed and corporate consolidation.