San Bruno’s super tax
By John Horgan
Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pm in Uncategorized.
The logic, somehow, seems skewed. In San Bruno, voters will be asked to increase the sales tax there by a full half-cent, making the total in that North County town 8.75 cents. If approved by a simple majority of the electorate Nov. 6 (the Proposition 13 two-thirds mandate somehow does not apply in this case), Measure F, which would generate several million fresh dollars for city programs and services, would make San Bruno the most expensive community along the Peninsula in which to sell goods. That includes gasoline and restaurant food. What makes this plan all the more questionable is that, lo and behold, The Shops at Tanforan, San Bruno’s biggest and most important shopping mall, would be slapped with this levy at the same time it is re-opening after several years _ and millions of bucks _ in renovation work. Thanks a lot. Measure F, if you care to look at it carefully, is really saying to one and all: “Please stay away from San Bruno where everything is going to be taxed to the hilt.” As you might expect, rather than fight the tax and risk any sort of backlash, officials at Tanforan have gritted their teeth and politely declined to take a position on Measure F. However, in a weird turnabout, the city’s Chamber of Commerce, supposedly the fiscal watchdog for the burg’s businesses, is in favor of it. Go figure.
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September 24th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Go Figure? Perhaps it’s because they have a more well-researched position than some Yahoo who can post whatever nonsense he wants on the internet. Go figure.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Then again, it might because the Chamber of Commerce has decided it is really an arm of San Bruno’s municipal government. The idea that the Chamber would endorse a plan to make its own businesses less competitive is really strange.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:06 am
“Perhaps it’s because they have a more well-researched position.”
San Bruno’s “well-researched position” is a funny thing, no one has seen the data. How many people were interviewed? Who was interviewed? Just because someone throws around a percentage doesn’t mean much. We can never truly know whether or not their position is “well-researched” until their methodology is analyzed. There’s an old cliche in Statistics: numbers don’t lie, people lie.
“than some Yahoo who can post whatever nonsense he wants on the internet. ”
It’s kinda funny you call him a yahoo, if you think about. You have reached a conclusion that he is a yahoo. If we were to work our way backwards from the premises to the conclusion we would have an argument. I am one hundred percent certain that if, one were to form an argument about you being a yahoo, that argument would be logically equivalent to your initial argument about him. You see, the necessary conditions he has met for being a yahoo, were also met by you. Logical equivalence is an interesting concept.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:36 am
I have no problem being accused of being a yahoo. Some of my best friends are yahoos. For that matter, some are also rednecks, geeks, twits, outlaws, in-laws, oddballs, Democrats, Rotarians, Scientologists, Seventh Day Adventists, you name it. And some of them actually think higher taxes are a great idea. I don’t. Never have. That’s the way it is. Yahoo? Sure.
September 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I want to make clear that my post above is not meant as an attack against Mr Horgan. This is not the impression I wanted to make with my post above. When it comes to Measure F, I agree 100% with John Horgan.
My post above is meant as an analysis of jose’s reasoning. It is meant to show the hypocrisy evident in jose’s line of thought.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Point taken.