San Francisco YC donation to defeat homeless prevention measure

Re:San Francisco YC donation to defeat homeless prevention m... by pucallpa on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:45PM (#18294679)

"A yes vote is a vote in favor of authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to fund housing and homelessness services by taxing certain businesses at the following rates: 0.175 percent to 0.69 percent on gross receipts for businesses with over $50 million in gross annual receipts, or 1.5 percent of payroll expenses for certain businesses with over $1 billion in gross annual receipts and administrative offices in San Francisco. A no vote is a vote against authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to tax businesses at the above rates to fund housing and homelessness services."

we should at least have the money to address the symptoms if we cannot fix the problem.

it's definitely sad to see paulg's stance on this; it just shows where his values are .

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Re:San Francisco YC donation to defeat homeless prevention m... by Kalium on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:11PM (#18294894)

> we should at least have the money to address the symptoms if we cannot fix the problem.

It may be worth mentioning that there's already a budget a at work approximately equal to the $300 million prop C is expected to raise. So while there are many, many problems with this whole scenario, it's possible that there being no money to address the symptoms at hand might not be among them.

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