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It will charge corporations with revenue above $50 million about 0.5 percent in gross receipts tax, with the proceeds going entirely toward homeless programs. Budget analysts estimate it will raise between $250 million and $300 million a year — nearly doubling the amount already being spent on homeless services and housing.
Billionaire Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, who poured at least $7 million of his own and his company’s money into the campaign for Prop. C, proclaimed he was “delighted the voters agree that this was what the city so badly needed.”
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...0-13369555.php
San Francisco reportedly has between 7000 and 8000 homeless persons living, using needles, urinating and defecating on its streets. Prior to Prop. C, it spent about $365 million annually on programs for them (source:
https://www.potreroview.net/with-a-1...-than-seattle/ ): That's over $45,000 per homeless person.
Now it will spend around $83,000 annually on each homeless person. Does anybody seriously think anything will change because of the additional funds alone? Apparently Mark Benioff does. I don't. I think it will take a stick along with all the expensive carrots. I think some people will simply need to be told you can't camp on the sidewalk, it isn't legal to pull down your pants and eliminate bodily waste on a main street in full daylight nor to sit on a busy sidewalk with a needle in your arm, then throw the needle in the gutter. And I doubt San Francisco will do any of those things.
What it will do is pay an even larger army of professional "nonprofit" homeless advocates and workers making a living providing dubious services.