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55 years of republicans working to lower taxes and demonize public employees has had an effect, even in cities that don't vote republican. Our cities are starve
by justinph 7y ago
55 years of republicans working to lower taxes and demonize public employees has had an effect, even in cities that don't vote republican. Our cities are starved of money for basic maintenance and to pay the best and the brightest to do public work.
- writepub 7y agoJust completely inaccurate. San Francisco - an uber democratic, liberal city, is the polar opposite of everything you blamed Republicans for. It has extremely high taxes, one of the largest budgets and income for any city in US (normalized per capita), and it still flounders on basic promises to it's citizens. Sky High Taxes + Democratic govt. still doesn't deliver good, nay half-decent results.
- sdinsn 7y agoSan Fransico's sales tax (8.5%) is lower than the average Californian city (8.56%) and lower than the average city in many states, for example: Alabama (9.14%), Arkansas (9.43%), and Kansas (8.67%). So it's definitely not accurate to say SF has "extremely high taxes".
- writepub 7y agoPlease examine the revenue per capita of San Francisco. And they have taxes on a myriad of things, sales tax is ONE of them. [1] has a better summary of reality, than a myopic comparison at sales tax %. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19985340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19985340
- sdinsn 7y agoThe reply to that summed up the flaws with the claim well. I encourage you to read it. SF doesn't even have city income tax.
- Redoubts 7y agoSF also has a Payroll Tax, unlike most cities.
- asdff 7y agoSF has a lower flat income tax than Cleveland.
- sdinsn 7y agoAnd here's a list of cities that have city income taxes https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246 https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-319... It's still strange to say SF has "extremely high taxes"