“They spend $25,000 per employee per year on perks like free beer and pool tables and massages ... That’s great, but can they spend $1,000 to help the rest of San Francisco survive?”
As it turned out, they could not. Representatives of tech organizations reacted fiercely against the tax, saying that it would suppress growth in the industry that has made the city – parts of it, at least – wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice.
— The Guardian
Widening the gap between San Francisco's wealthy and poor, the budget committee of the city's board of supervisors rejected on Monday the tech tax, which “would have imposed a 1.5% payroll levy on technology companies that generate more than $1m in revenues a year, including Uber, Google, Twitter and Airbnb.”
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So, SF politicians are clean
I guess those fuckers better get used to making their own double machiatto lattes.
rejecting the tech tax is as bad as the evergreen terrace teardown in Peter Nomad's thread. just keep building that tech citadel. someday the peasants will push the gates down.
beta they can bus the poor in, they already do that in many places in this country.
Eventually, one day the tech bros will wake up head outside into their city and realize "this place is not cool anymore" and when that happens, and it will happen, things like this will be looked upon as missed opportunities to keep the delicate balance in San Francisco or any major urban center that make urban life interesting and worth while.
Also these Tech people need to stop complaining about the homeless folks hassling them in the streets if they are not willing to fund a solution.
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Wait, what...! Is this guy really straw-manning the "tech tax" with Trump?
“As a city, I don’t think we should subscribe to the politics of Donald Trump and the Republicans that they are saying certain people are not welcome here in San Francisco,” said Mark Farrell, one of two who voted to block the measure in the three-person committee, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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