A follow-up to my earlier tweet about crack-zombie assaults on SF employees, with my thoughts on Prop C, how remote work will force cities to become more competitive in attracting good residents and businesses.
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If there is something specific that you'd like to debate, I'm game but so far, I have only heard bigoted and presumptuous remarks, ad hominems, straw men and false dichotomies.
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I'm not debating any crack-zombies, afaik.
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Money is just a tool. It can be used to finance good plans, which make things better, and it can be used to finance bad plans, which make things worse. I don't know if "crack-zombies" are part of the homeless population or not. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is immoral, not virtuous.
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Proponents of C must admit that it is their worldview that it is acceptable to use physical force or the threat thereof to take money from one person, business, group, race, class, city, county, state, country, and give it to another. Where I come from, this is called stealing.1/
I think you see business leaders objecting to C because we are used to being accountable for our spending. We should have a backup plan, pivots identified, benchmarks, milestones. How will we change our approach if our thesis turns out to be wrong and make things worse?2/
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It is not at all clear to me that the way this money is intended to be spent is going to generate the ROI proponents are expecting. I think there are better options but because SF is highly susceptible to populism and demagoguery, an honest debate about tough choices is hard 3/3
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The vote for C is to expand the role of the police force to extract funds from businesses. Those leaders who do not voluntarily hand over the funds will be imprisoned. Those who refuse to be imprisoned will be killed. Isn't that clear? Or, you could just ask for donations.
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I don't disagree with all forms of taxation. Most people don't understand how small tax changes can prompt huge changes for businesses. It's one thing to tax the whole population, or land owners in the city, but this is an unfair distribution of the burden.
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