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Yeah, let the city collect taxes from all the woke millenials who are neck-deep in student debt and the homeless...

Or, move some of the obscene wealth away so the residents aren't gentrified out of existence, like they already have been? It won't just be CEOs, it'll be all the software engineers and the like too.

and five years from now i get to hear how it is everyone else's fault that real estate property prices fell in san francisco, which destroyed people's equity and retirement plans.

Not to mention how they will be complaining about the underfunded schools, the lack of investment in infrastructure, social programs, free clinics, "no one is there to help the homeless", etc, etc...

It has been 5 years since France tried and failed to put 75% taxes on the "super rich" and they ended up with less tax revenue than previous years. Those who don't learn History are bound to repeat it...

How naive to think salaries are not paid out of that wealth

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