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There should be some sort of state law that preempts municipalities from pulling this bullshit. In SF, who gets to make up these municipal tax codes? The city c
by viggity 16y ago
There should be some sort of state law that preempts municipalities from pulling this bullshit. In SF, who gets to make up these municipal tax codes? The city council? How many people need to make up their mind one way or the other to levy what could be a gigantic tax? 10?
Letting such a small group of people tax have such a gigantic amount of power is dangerous.
- viggity 16y agoFor a city of 815K, they have 11 people on their board of supervisors (http://www.sfbos.org/ http://www.sfbos.org/). Does that mean they only need 6 of them to create new taxes?
- rdouble 16y agoNo, the residents of San Francisco vote on the taxes.
- viggity 16y agothen they'll reap what they sow as the big startups leave for palo alto
- rdouble 16y agoBig startups don't move to Palo Alto as there is not enough office space. They might move to Brisbane, though.
- tesseract 16y agoSpeaking of which I thought I read an article recently about the city of SF attempting to negotiate with Twitter to get them to stay in town. If SF is trying to encourage tech startups to stay, this tax seems more than a bit counterproductive to the cause.
- bgentry 16y agoThe linked article discusses these negotiations at length.
- rdouble 16y agoThere should be some sort of state law that preempts municipalities from pulling this bullshit Article 13c of the California state constitution.