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If you can’t make things better, just enjoy the downhill slide.
Mayor Sheng Thao is contemplating the implementation of a fee for other cities if their homeless residents relocate to Oakland.
In an interview with The San Francisco Examiner, the mayor raised the possibility of this proposal, which is currently in its preliminary stage. How it would be implemented or enforced has not even been discussed at this point.
Still, the idea behind the fee is to serve as a deterrent for other cities, discouraging them from sending their homeless population to Oakland. Additionally, the fee aims to help recover some of the expenses incurred by Oakland on programs and initiatives for the homeless.
This is an idiot’s idea of how to fight a civil war. But maybe other cities can charge Oakland an impact fee for all of the garbage that comes out of the Bay Area.
Thao had said, “I am very open about calling out the cities and saying, ‘You need to do more for your unhoused residents. Otherwise, you can pay me, you can pay this city, the city of Oakland an impact fee because you’re impacting our city. And we could take it on. However, we can’t serve everyone.’”
No one can.
And how would Thao enforce her fee? She could threaten to bus foreign homeless back to their cities unless they pay their impact fees. That would provide Oakland with a revenue stream when everyone flees. But other cities could respond by busing the homeless back to Oakland. And then our social services system can be replaced with a giant busing operation. That would probably be an improvement.
Your police already have guns. How difficult is it to teach then to say “Hands up. Give me your money.”?
What the point of having more law enforcement, if you’re not using what you have now?
Yeah, I can’t see that approach working, legally or practically. Maybe a new low in stupidity?
Sorry AA, but the left is capable of much, much lower than that. It shouldn’t take too long.
No doubt, but I can’t fathom how dumb she is to think that way.
Another idiotic “proposal” floated by a Democrat politician who has given no serious thought to what is being proposed. This has become standard operating procedure with Democrats. Reminiscent of Pelosi saying “pass the bill so we can read it…”
Even more so, it being an unworkable realty denying framework, that they never did figure out how to make work..
The idiots are getting even more idiotic all the time this one belongs in a padded cell and straight jacket
Oakland just cut their police budget by about $17 million too
Maybe they can myfans their city surveillance feeds to defray costs while the parts of the country that aren’t run by the democrat party make popcorn and enjoy the daily sanfran mayhem shitshow.
They used to broadcast the insane fighting at the City Council meetings in my former SF Bay city. It was a huge hit in South Korea 🙂
They used to broadcast the Atlanta city council meetings too, back in queen emma darnell’s day. Talk about a bunch of pompous, posing nitwits.
This is the next step after congestion pricing, suggestion pricing.
I’m tempted to buy a few tickets to send a few of ours her way, so she can try to collect. I could start a non-profit and give myself a really cushy salary. I could send them with some $200 tents from walmart and charge her $2K a pop for them. After all, she’s paying $3K for them locally now, so it would save her 30%.