Tax high tech and other giant corporations - not poor people through another sales tax. One of the sales tax proponents on the Board of Supervisors is running in south county for state senate. His November top-two runoff opponent should jump on this one.

Not mentioned in the article is that the current sales tax is already 9%. So new sales tax is nearly 10%. Also not mentioned in the article are the growths of increased spending on pension and healthcare for public employees.

This is an issue that I will definitely be voting against.

Instead of raising taxes again, let's layoff 20% across the board in every agency of the city, county and state governments. Because of covid, we now know that some of jobs that have not been done the last few months, we can probably get by without. It's called spending within your means. Let's be prepared for the next disaster and have a real rainy day fund, that one cannot borrow from, like SS and the gas tax.

As usual, government is a bottomless pit that will never be satisfied by an amount of taxes it collects and will never learn to live within its means.

Cut the budget and remove the dead weight.
What about using the County's $8 billion investments?
Now is not the time to punish the citizens who have been out of work.

A few years back when we all experienced a slow down in the economy, I think they actually called it a recession, many cities reduced services and cut hours of operation. I think even some city police stations were not open to the public and if you had a traffic ticket to pay, you could do it over the phone or just submit your fines online. If city, county, state, and federal agencies used the technology that we already have developed, they could come up with ways to save millions of money but like the lazy elected officials, they just take the easy route and put everything on the backs of the workers. Raising taxes is so yesterday and shows the lack of creativity in too many elected officials. It's time to stop bleeding the citizens of your community and start doing your job. If you are not smart enough or creative and innovative enough, maybe you are not the right person to help out your community. People who make above $100K in the Bay Area and are still collecting their salaries will not feel another small tax burden but the workers who lost their job because of the Coronavirus and is struggling to put food on their tables and are having no luck in collecting their State Unemployment are the ones who feel the day-to-day stress of not being able to pay their rent and other monthly expenses. Have you not seen the long lines of Bay Area families waiting to get food from the organizations that are feeding the hungry in America?