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Sure, as long as it’s set aside for the specific categories of workers they want.

^ Underrated post.

The city could start by eliminating the sales tax and pile it on property taxes: it immediately increases worker wages, and lowers the value of properties in one go, affecting mostly those that do not consume in the city at all.

Prop 13. They can't just increase property taxes.

Call it "garbage collection tax". Economically, you can do it.

> The city could start by eliminating the sales tax and pile it on property taxes

Yes, sure, all they have to do is secede from California so that they are no longer subject to California’s Constitutional limits on property taxes and they can get right on that.