Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer

Re:Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:00PM (#8801504)

>SF is dirty because the people prefer low taxes to real government services

New Yorkers pay similar taxes as San Franciscans. Yet our service level is substantially better. I think it comes down to city governments that are willing to make trade-offs (versus those that tend to get locked down by incumbent interests and populist temptations).

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Re:Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer by spamizbad on Saturday December 27, 2014 @01:17AM (#8801869)

NYC has plenty of incumbent interests and populist temptations.

It has one major thing over SF that makes it work: It gains much more tax revenue per square mile than SF due to its superior density, which is derived from history and its superior zoning rules.

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Re:Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer by briandear on Saturday December 27, 2014 @04:33AM (#8802175)

Houston has far lower taxes than both SF and NYC and I have never seen human poop on the sidewalks. My point is that the tax rate has little to do with it; it's a question of priorities.

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