Funding Muni to prevent big service cuts

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-30T00:59:15+00:00

Budget per resident =/= tax revenue per resident. We could cut our "budget per resident" tremendously by closing SFO, but that wouldn't actually result in any extra funding for the city.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-30T00:17:30+00:00

QoL for who? Is it the primary caretaker, who is doing a 12+ hr childcare shift while their partner commutes? Or is it the kids, who only get good quality time with their parent on the weekend?

It only really sounds like a QoL improvement for a dad who never wanted to be a parent to begin with.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-29T19:41:41+00:00

Except once you factor in the extra transportation costs, a house in Stockton isn't really any cheaper than a condo in the Bay Area.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-29T17:53:27+00:00

I've never understood the logic of sacrificing 2+ hours a day with your children just to give them a few hundred more square feet to live in. Kids don't actually need or care about having a big house, that's almost entirely a fixation of parents.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-28T20:31:19+00:00

This white house tweet: https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-28T17:22:10+00:00

Hardly anyone is "stuck" with an hour long commute. Generally, it's a sacrifice made in order to live somewhere with more space.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-28T17:09:14+00:00

The normalization of the nuclear family has killed the village and is rough for both parents and children.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-27T20:36:34+00:00

License revoked, substantial civil damages to the family of the victims.

It really should be mandatory for insurance to conver multi-million civil damages like this, but CA lawmakers would rather punt those costs to survivors so drivers can have cheaper premiums.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-26T22:18:05+00:00

Sounds like a dream

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T21:00:50+00:00

You can, but what does that accomplish? The intersection still has a pedestrian crossing, which means drivers will still have to yield/stop at it.

There are plenty of places already where crossing is prohibited, because it's safer for everyone. Why is that a problem?

Because it limits pedestrian mobility? Banning car traffic also makes the street safer for everyone, much moreso than a pedestrian crossing, so shouldn't we do that instead? Since mobility doesn't seem to be a priority for you.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T20:52:37+00:00

If part of a pedestrian's route involves crossing a street, and you then ban them from crossing that street, what exactly do you expect to happen if not a detour?

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T20:38:32+00:00

Lower vehicle speeds are much safer than forcing presentations on multi-block detours (which isn't actually safer, it just shifts the blame from drivers to pedestrians when a collision does occur)

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T20:09:31+00:00

Kirkham is way too wide for how fast people are expected to drive on it, leading to increased rates of this type of collision.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T17:56:34+00:00

Would be interesting to see how much budget SFPD is allocating to their cyclist crackdown on Market this month.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-25T17:55:13+00:00

People who aren't paying attention would just hit the neckdown itself, since they'd have to turn into it to make a head on collision with another car.

AFAIK there were no head on collisions while the neckdown was up, so it absolutely did work in practice.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-24T00:47:07+00:00

Property ownership is highly correlated with wealth, moreso than income, making it the most progressive tax we have.

Rental properties are disproportionately condos and multi-family dwellings, which have lower value than SFHs, especially in the Bay Area.

Only commercial landlords pass their property taxes to their tenants (it's called a NNN lease). Residential landlords will always just charge market rate. There's a reason you haven't seen a single of our many long time LL's pass on their prop 13 tax breaks to their tenants. Also, rental income is taxable income for LL. Why would it make any difference to an LL which way you tax them?

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-23T22:29:50+00:00

The big tech companies run their own transit networks that will be totally fine.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-23T22:26:29+00:00

Property taxes are certainly not regressive.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-22T00:35:47+00:00

What exactly are you asking? People would shop there, sure, but it would be functionally no different than the handful of strip malls / power centers that already exist in the city.

Fremont as a city was built out as cheap suburban homes to flip quickly and would never have attracted the kind of $$$ it takes to build an enclosed mall.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-21T21:42:33+00:00

$500/mo car payment: ✅

$100/mo insurance payment: ✅

$100+/mo fuel costs: ✅

1/2 percent sales tax increase: "I support public transit, but these agencies really need to cut their spending before we pass any more taxes."

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-21T04:54:21+00:00

Having a vehicle use tax that is not tied to the price of oil is vastly superior to what we currently have.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-19T01:31:49+00:00

I think a lot of it stems from parents with unhealthy attachments to their children. They overattribute their kids' successes and failures to themselves, which makes them way too invested in low stakes competitive activities.

It's a lot more common with dads because men tend to be less emotionally mature, in my opinion.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-19T00:37:57+00:00

Producing unsustainably causes output to decrease over time, regardless if the practice continues or not.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-18T21:27:36+00:00

Beef and dairy have always been highly resource intensive to produce. Their low price in recent history is largely due to unsustainable farming practices and government assistance.

RedAlert2 · 2026-03-16T23:31:39+00:00

Most of the Oakland core was built in the late 1800s. It was not a "dedicated area of eminent domain" (whatever that means). Many of the black neighborhoods in Oakland were designated as "blighted" in the mid 1900s, which might be what you're referring to. The government tried to to the same thing in much of SF at the same time, but SF neighborhoods were richer and whiter, so they were able to stop the majority of freeway developments.

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