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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, the big problem with quality of life in SF is not crime.  It is cost of living.  SF is beautiful, relative safe for an American city and has pretty good weather. NIMBYism keeps housing supply low.  So people can’t afford to live here. If SF was such a hellhole, the average house wouldn’t cost over 1.5 million. [/quote]
It’s both. You don’t get what you pay for. Filth everywhere [/quote]

With all of the tech sector billions you'd think SF should and would tax those high flyers to provide the resources to deal with the homeless and clean up the streets.  For a supposedly liberal-run city it's odd that isn't happening. [/quote]
In many ways the Bay Area is a culture clash between liberal and libertarian...and when it comes to economic policy, the libertarians win. The tech companies HQ'ed in SF should be paying more taxes, but they don't. In fact, for the most part, many of the biggest tech companies (e.g. AirBnB, Uber, etc) are predicated on robbing municipalities of tax dollars by falsely claiming that the previously regulated industries they are participating in are "sharing" economies.[/quote]

This is an exemplar of modern left-wing thinking.

As already established the problem isn't one of lack of funding.   SF's homeless are already lavishly funded by the taxpayers.

You want to raise taxes because maybe if a billion dollars a year isn't enough to solve the problem maybe $2 billion or $10 billion will work?[/quote]

Yes. It costs more to deal with homeless and clean up the mess etc than to ship them somewhere else and pay for housing. But they want this lifestyle.[/quote]

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