Epoch Times - Former SF Mayor: Taxing Business To Fund Homeless Programs Is A Bottomless Pit  #californiainsider
Aired: 2023-10-21
Duration: 00:50

[00:00:00]  The situation San Francisco is in, did you ever think it would become like this?
[00:00:04]  No, I didn't.
[00:00:05]  This whole idea of taxing large businesses to take care of the homeless program, when you see that the program is a bottomless pit, that's not going to satisfy a business committee that wants to come to San Francisco.
[00:00:16]  We are a caring, sensitive, compassionate city, no question about it, and we always will be.
[00:00:22]  But there is a limit to what you can do in Right now, we're driving the business community out of San Francisco because we see the out-of-control drugs everywhere in the city.
[00:00:30]  And you'll also see it with the retail theft where Walgreens drug stores and Target and Safeway are all having all kinds of shoplifting theft.
[00:00:39]  10, 12, 14 people come in and break their glass windows and take jewelry or purses and clothing and run out the door and disappear.
[00:00:46]  And when you look around, you see the quality of life is starting to dissipate.