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The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers.

dragonwriter 7y ago
> The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers. Not those, including inevitably low-wage workers, whose jobs are cut to balance the budget with lower revenue, including those cut as second- and higher-order effects. Rebating the sales/use taxes of low wage workers (or simply the first $X for those also paying SF income tax), possibly making this revenue neutral by alos raising sales tax rates, would be more focussed.
- conanbatt 7y ago
  Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc). It is the city that has to tighten their 9billion a year belt.
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    > Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The minimum civil service full-time pay rate currently for the City and County of San Francisco [0] is a biweekly $1,320, which is $34,320 annually. Per HUD, for a single person household in SF: - $33,850 is extra low income - $56,450 is very low income - $90,450 is low income So, yes, low wage workers work for the city (even before considering second order impacts like workers for city contracting firms, etc.) > The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc). [citation needed] [0] http://sfdhr.org/sites/default/files/documents/Classification-and-Compensation/Hourly-Rates-of-Pay-by-Classification-and-Step-FY19-20.xlsx http://sfdhr.org/sites/default/files/documents/Classificatio...
    - conanbatt 7y ago
      Requested citations: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=police&y=2018 https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=police&... https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-employees-make-184000-a-year-2018-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-em... SF city has a budget of 9billion dollars ~ and 329,700 households. That gives you a whooping 27,300 dollars of spending per household. They would have to send a bill to every household for 2270 every month to cover their raw expenditures. Who is the landlord now?

dragonwriter 7y ago

> The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers. Not those, including inevitably low-wage workers, whose jobs are cut to balance the budget with lower revenue, including those cut as second- and higher-order effects. Rebating the sales/use taxes of low wage workers (or simply the first $X for those also paying SF income tax), possibly making this revenue neutral by alos raising sales tax rates, would be more focussed.

conanbatt 7y ago
Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc). It is the city that has to tighten their 9billion a year belt.
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The minimum civil service full-time pay rate currently for the City and County of San Francisco [0] is a biweekly $1,320, which is $34,320 annually. Per HUD, for a single person household in SF: - $33,850 is extra low income - $56,450 is very low income - $90,450 is low income So, yes, low wage workers work for the city (even before considering second order impacts like workers for city contracting firms, etc.) > The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc). [citation needed] [0] http://sfdhr.org/sites/default/files/documents/Classification-and-Compensation/Hourly-Rates-of-Pay-by-Classification-and-Step-FY19-20.xlsx http://sfdhr.org/sites/default/files/documents/Classificatio...
  - conanbatt 7y ago
    Requested citations: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=police&y=2018 https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=police&... https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-employees-make-184000-a-year-2018-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-poop-patrol-em... SF city has a budget of 9billion dollars ~ and 329,700 households. That gives you a whooping 27,300 dollars of spending per household. They would have to send a bill to every household for 2270 every month to cover their raw expenditures. Who is the landlord now?