If you dig into the ballot, pushing Prop C is v advantageous for Benioff. The categorization of Salesforce really minimizes his losses from gross receipt taxes. If Prop C doesn’t get passed, he may get hit with a *much* larger tax.https://twitter.com/salesforce/status/1057346952310984705 …
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Replying to @rivatez
What is advantageous for me is helping the homeless. Homelessness has become a huge problem in our city, just walk down the streets. And, our employees and customers and all of us are impacted it. We have a chance to do something to help. That’s why I am voting for Prop C.
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Yes I already saw from your heavily promoted tweet that if I don't agree with you or vote Prop C that I hate the homeless. This is moral blackmail. If you want to talk about your massive economic incentive to pass Prop C lmk, otherwise we can keep pretending you invented empathy.
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Maybe he's honestly just tired, after 15-20+ years, of being the only prominent person in tech that groups serving the poor consistently ask to donate money because no one else who has become wealthy from this city does....
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We aren’t talking about philanthropy here. We’re talking about a poorly designed revenue tax that takes money from *companies* to fund a broken system. The victims of this won’t even be tech companies who can prob afford to take it on, it will be other local businesses.
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who designed the revenue tax?https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sanfrancisco-conway/in-san-francisco-tech-investor-leads-a-political-makeover-idUSBRE89S05F20121029 …
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And yes if the private sector created an inclusive economy where every person from every income quintile had a living wage, we wouldn’t have a broken system and we wouldn’t need redistributive programs. https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/inequality-economic-security-silicon-valley/ …pic.twitter.com/g0YpyzDw1b
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the private sector is a participant *within* the economy, not the creator of it how many jobs would be created, and how much would cost of living be lowered, if we double the bay area housing stock over the next decade? 'political economy' is a more accurate term
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we do both. We've changed 23 laws at the California state level to increase housing stock over the last 2 years. Did you contribute to that change at all? People who work on zoning also know that it is mathematically, financially impossible to produce new units in CA that are
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accessible to workers making minimum wage or less on coastal regions absent public subsidy. So we do both.
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coastal CA, I should be more specific.
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