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The city (not including state or fed) of San Fran spend over 100K per person on homeless?
Posted on 4/13/26 at 7:28 am
Posted on 4/13/26 at 7:28 am
Course we know the lions share goes to NGOs who "administer" the care.
And before you say, they voted for this.....they certainly did and you paid for it. They passed an incremental service tax on gross sales of any business in the city, the larger the higher the percentage of tax. So when you use a service for one of those big companies, you are paying for it.
This is on top of the tax for administrative office tax)a percentage of your payroll, and an overpaid executive tax that taxes the company if executives make 100 times the average san franciscan.
And all of these taxes are on gross, they dont give a shat if you make money or not, they are taking their cut from the top end.
This on top of the highest state tax in the nation.
No wonder companies are moving out of the state.
And before you say, they voted for this.....they certainly did and you paid for it. They passed an incremental service tax on gross sales of any business in the city, the larger the higher the percentage of tax. So when you use a service for one of those big companies, you are paying for it.
This is on top of the tax for administrative office tax)a percentage of your payroll, and an overpaid executive tax that taxes the company if executives make 100 times the average san franciscan.
And all of these taxes are on gross, they dont give a shat if you make money or not, they are taking their cut from the top end.
This on top of the highest state tax in the nation.
No wonder companies are moving out of the state.
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Posted on 4/13/26 at 7:29 am to trinidadtiger
Someone is spending that money. It's not on the homeless. Huge corruption pit
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:06 am to trinidadtiger
Unless that money is going to put them in asylums and lock them up, then they could spend $1 million per person and it would do no good.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:11 am to castorinho
Those Cali high speed rail annual passes ain't free. Wonder how many they have pre sold?
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:13 am to trinidadtiger
If you can just print money to help these folks, then why wouldn’t you?
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:14 am to trinidadtiger
They are going to have to figure it out and quick with all those mega companies fleeing the state.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:16 am to trinidadtiger
My wife and I were talking about this over the weekend.
San Francisco -- I you are reading this, you might want to learn. In the 80's, it was my favorite City to visit. The city was the reverse of most -- people would travel to surrounding areas to work, returning to domicile at night. Thousands of great places to eat. I introduced my future wife to SF in the mid 80's.
We would often fly out for long weekends and spent a great deal of money there as tourists.
That all stopped in the 90's when they started subsidizing homelessness. I remember watching the problem grow, thinking how absurd this policy was. It started with a couple of hundred a month... I heard recently, it's closer to a grand now; free needles, services. you name it.
You know the rule which starts with 'That which you subsidize...'
We stopped going around the turn of the century -- finding other, safer and more pleasant places to visit.
Thank about that - several thousand spent annually to ZERO, overnight.
I started this comment writing she and I were discussing SF over the past couple of days. We were talking about where to visit next... and we both agreed, we'll NEVER visit this city again.
San Francisco -- I you are reading this, you might want to learn. In the 80's, it was my favorite City to visit. The city was the reverse of most -- people would travel to surrounding areas to work, returning to domicile at night. Thousands of great places to eat. I introduced my future wife to SF in the mid 80's.
We would often fly out for long weekends and spent a great deal of money there as tourists.
That all stopped in the 90's when they started subsidizing homelessness. I remember watching the problem grow, thinking how absurd this policy was. It started with a couple of hundred a month... I heard recently, it's closer to a grand now; free needles, services. you name it.
You know the rule which starts with 'That which you subsidize...'
We stopped going around the turn of the century -- finding other, safer and more pleasant places to visit.
Thank about that - several thousand spent annually to ZERO, overnight.
I started this comment writing she and I were discussing SF over the past couple of days. We were talking about where to visit next... and we both agreed, we'll NEVER visit this city again.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:18 am to trinidadtiger
California is ripe for a grand experiment.
Give 10 random homeless people a sum of $100,000 each, with a cell phone to track them and see how they do.
Give 10 random homeless people a sum of $100,000 each, with a cell phone to track them and see how they do.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 8:33 am to Willie Stroker
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California is ripe for a grand experiment.
Give 10 random homeless people a sum of $100,000 each, with a cell phone to track them and see how they do.
5 White, 3 Black, 2 Latino....see which, if any, can better themselves
Posted on 4/13/26 at 9:21 am to trinidadtiger
My favorite is the new SF plan to stop the homeless from shoplifing at liquor stores. The new plan is $100K a month to provide free booze to the homeless. I don't see how they prevent the non-homeless from getting bottles. Maybe the homeless have an official I.D. It could be used for voting.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 9:26 am to Zach
I bet less than $5,000 is actually spent to help a homeless person, and $95,000 is stolen by administrators, politicians, and charity workers.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 9:36 am to bird35
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I bet less than $5,000 is actually spent to help a homeless person, and $95,000 is stolen by administrators, politicians, and charity workers.
You're probably right. But the idea of giving drunks free booze reminds me of the oringal HMO. It was before Health Maintenance Organizations. It was back in the 60s in London and stood for Heroine Maintenance Organization. Drug addicts were encouraged to visit the clinic for a free shot in order to prevent them from getting infected by dirty needles. It was dropped when they found it discouraged addicts from dropping the habit.
Posted on 4/13/26 at 5:58 pm to Zach
I believe a lot of these tech companies are "altruistic" because they have enjoyed the "go go years" and the free money with interest so low and the feds doling out trillions.
Now that has ended. But the fatal blow was the billionaire tax. Wait wait, Im not spending the company's money on feel good stuff, now its my money.
They will continue to leave.
It truly is Atlas Shrugged in real life, just unbelievable.
Now that has ended. But the fatal blow was the billionaire tax. Wait wait, Im not spending the company's money on feel good stuff, now its my money.
They will continue to leave.
It truly is Atlas Shrugged in real life, just unbelievable.
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