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0 pointsconanbatt6y ago0 comments

The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers.

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dragonwriter6y ago· 2 in thread

> The best thing a city like SF could do is abolish its sales taxes. That increases the salary of everyone and particularly low-wage workers.

Not those, including inevitably low-wage workers, whose jobs are cut to balance the budget with lower revenue, including those cut as second- and higher-order effects.

Rebating the sales/use taxes of low wage workers (or simply the first $X for those also paying SF income tax), possibly making this revenue neutral by alos raising sales tax rates, would be more focussed.

conanbattOP6y ago

Low-wage workers are not working for the city. The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc).

It is the city that has to tighten their 9billion a year belt.

dragonwriter6y ago

> Low-wage workers are not working for the city.

The minimum civil service full-time pay rate currently for the City and County of San Francisco [0] is a biweekly $1,320, which is $34,320 annually.

Per HUD, for a single person household in SF:

- $33,850 is extra low income

- $56,450 is very low income

- $90,450 is low income

So, yes, low wage workers work for the city (even before considering second order impacts like workers for city contracting firms, etc.)

> The city pays very handsomely (400k police, 100k poop patrol, etc).

[citation needed]

[0] http://sfdhr.org/sites/default/files/documents/Classificatio...

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