I think these new technologies are great, but at the end of the day the reason government is pushing them on the people is to collect more money. So one way or another people will pay more.
Also, let's note that this is SF, tax increases are very popular there, sheep who follow and vote these liberals into the city council will support any tax increase simple because they think it is hip.
@Sea Urchin I have no idea what kind of social services there are in San Francisco, but generally if you want the government to do more stuff for people or give more stuff to people, you're gonna have to pay up with higher taxes. Reckless increases of social services without a corresponding raise in taxes is part of why California is in such a mess right now. I still wonder whose bright idea it was to require more votes to raise taxes than to add money-guzzling services.
@HurricaneDC Expansions in benefits (and tax cuts and offense spending--or is that "defense?") without increasing taxes is the reason why the whole country is in the mess it's in. We're running a 14.5 TRILLION dollar public debt. California is peanuts. We have to drastically cut spending and drastically increase taxes 15 years ago to have a hope of dealing with it--oh wait, too late. It's too much to deal with. When other countries stop fearing our military, they will stop financing our debt and we will fall hard. This sucks.
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I think these new technologies are great, but at the end of the day the reason government is pushing them on the people is to collect more money. So one way or another people will pay more.
Also, let's note that this is SF, tax increases are very popular there, sheep who follow and vote these liberals into the city council will support any tax increase simple because they think it is hip.
@Sea Urchin I have no idea what kind of social services there are in San Francisco, but generally if you want the government to do more stuff for people or give more stuff to people, you're gonna have to pay up with higher taxes. Reckless increases of social services without a corresponding raise in taxes is part of why California is in such a mess right now. I still wonder whose bright idea it was to require more votes to raise taxes than to add money-guzzling services.
@HurricaneDC Expansions in benefits (and tax cuts and offense spending--or is that "defense?") without increasing taxes is the reason why the whole country is in the mess it's in. We're running a 14.5 TRILLION dollar public debt. California is peanuts. We have to drastically cut spending and drastically increase taxes 15 years ago to have a hope of dealing with it--oh wait, too late. It's too much to deal with. When other countries stop fearing our military, they will stop financing our debt and we will fall hard. This sucks.