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/
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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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Not entirely. I think it makes sense on sales, especially luxury goods and cars.