San Francisco needs to run the city more efficiently. I'm tired of paying lazy lifers to do nothing but collect extravagant salaries and lifetime benefits. Work hard for a living dammit. We do.
San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away
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#22I'm probably a "fecking eejit," but what exactly is so stupid and ridiculous about the quote "Who are the [Twitter] investors? Probably some of the wealthiest people in this country. And we are giving them more wealth."? I mean, would the tax really hurt Twitter or Zynga? This stuff is just kind of disheartening. Oh no, your multi-billion dollar massive success of a company might lose a couple mil to taxes, better th…
Maybe i am too, but I can't figure out how SF is "giving" [the companies] wealth? Said companies are earning their own wealth. SF is not "giving" it to them, I'm sure.
Let's say you were going to lease storage (physical) and outfit A had a flat fee of 50/mo. Outfit B had a flat fee of 70/mo plus appreciation on the goods you stored. Let's say 20/mo difference had negligible impact on your disposable income. Who would you choose?
If you have a choice, why choose the costliest one?
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#23I'm sorry, but I didn't read the article. I'm just posting right now because I clicked on it accidentally for the exact same reason that I decided to quit reading Tech Crunch: there is little to no substance there, but there are tremendous amounts of gamey, overblown, linkbaiting article titles.
I'm really frustrated right now, for several reasons.
One, I know that a portion of the articles I'm scouting around for are being shoved aside to make way for these techno-celebrity gossip columns. Only so many articles can get in the top 40-50, and I only have so much time in a day.
Two, I clicked on it. Which means Tech Crunch is correct in their assessment of my interests and certain keywords that instinctively drive my click impulses.
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#24I appreciate it when people pay taxes because I like public transportation, fire safety, paved roads, bridges, public schools, police officers, health inspectors, safety inspectors, public parks, libraries, clean air, (relatively) fair corporations, airports, hospitals, court systems, electricity, vehicle regulation, elections, veteran associations, child support, public television...
San Francisco is a pretty nice place to live. Sometimes you need to pay a little more for nicer things.
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#25I'm sorry, but I didn't read the article. I'm just posting right now because I clicked on it accidentally for the exact same reason that I decided to quit reading Tech Crunch: there is little to no substance there, but there are tremendous amounts of gamey, overblown, linkbaiting article titles. I'm really frustrated right now, for several reasons. One, I know that a portion of the articles I'm scouting around for ar…
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#26I appreciate it when people pay taxes because I like public transportation, fire safety, paved roads, bridges, public schools, police officers, health inspectors, safety inspectors, public parks, libraries, clean air, (relatively) fair corporations, airports, hospitals, court systems, electricity, vehicle regulation, elections, veteran associations, child support, public television... San Francisco is a pretty nice p…
I don't appreciate the extravagant waste and the entitlement of the state to impose it's will on the people. With our taxes, we also support bailouts, wars, and other profiteering of those in control. Also, these institutions are basically monopolies, where the people in charge are not really accountable to run them efficiently or effectively.
Does giving the government more money make the government more effective?
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#27I appreciate it when people pay taxes because I like public transportation, fire safety, paved roads, bridges, public schools, police officers, health inspectors, safety inspectors, public parks, libraries, clean air, (relatively) fair corporations, airports, hospitals, court systems, electricity, vehicle regulation, elections, veteran associations, child support, public television... San Francisco is a pretty nice p…
Umm, Mountain View/Sunnyvale/San Jose don't have which of the above? Btw, I upvoted you giving a nice list of things taxes support.
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#28Oh, give me a break. I live in the supposed "tax free hooker area", and there are probably more hookers in the lounge of the Ritz Carlton than there are near the SF Furniture Mart (where the city wants Twitter to move). It's not like they're proposing to move them into an abandoned Happy Donut at the corner of 6th and Market. City hall and the Asian Art Museum are one block north. The opera, symphony and ballet are t…
Plenty of companies are located in the far more boring Silicon Valley. And assuming they are talking about Sierra Point, a place close to a freeway and caltrain. Doubtful it'll be a problem. :)
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#29Oh, give me a break. I live in the supposed "tax free hooker area", and there are probably more hookers in the lounge of the Ritz Carlton than there are near the SF Furniture Mart (where the city wants Twitter to move). It's not like they're proposing to move them into an abandoned Happy Donut at the corner of 6th and Market. City hall and the Asian Art Museum are one block north. The opera, symphony and ballet are t…
Maybe they have streets that don't smell like urine and marijuana.
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#30Why yes, because hoping to take this insane amount of money flowing into the city (and state!) and use it to make everyone else's lives that much more livable is a terrible, horrible, no good very bad thing. I'm sure nobody involved in the tech sector has ever benefited from any public monies; it's only right that they shouldn't have to pay any taxes!