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When you read this list of cuts that Bay Area cities are going to have to make remind your self that we are home to an incredible concentration of billionaires who so far have done next to nothing to pitch in: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
San Francisco alone has 75 billionaires. Most have apparently done nothing, and what pledges there have been, like @jack's, are vague: sf.curbed.com/2020/4/30/2124…
"Bank of America and Wells Fargo have together donated $350,000 to Breed’s Give2SF Fund—“chump change” for giant banks, as one elected official fumed"
Here's a list of who's given what to @londonbreed's Give2SF fund. Only a tiny few have given a $1M plus docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Meanwhile, many regular people have given to this fund (which of course isn't the only way to give to local COVID efforts), $200, $100, $50, whatever. sf.gov/give-city-resp…
So yes, they should be taxed a lot more. But in the meantime, some good public shaming is in order.
"Other donors who ponied up to defeat Proposition C (biz taxes toward homeless) who haven’t seen fit to dish a dime to COVID-19 relief include Levi Strauss, the San Francisco Giants, Charles Schwab, Instacart, and the Chamber of Commerce itself."
This better not be THOSE Schmidts:
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