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For 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
by viggity 16y ago
For 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.