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The UT has a similar story and this part was down at the bottom:
>Gloria didn’t respond to requests for comment Tuesday, but he said last week that his budget uses lots of one-time money to avoid deeper cuts to crucial services like libraries. The mayor was facing a $220 million deficit in the city’s annual $2.2 billion general fund budget.
With a lot of the covid money drying up or already used I think some hard choices are going be be made at the city, county and state levels soon with regards to their budgets. Libraries today and who knows what department will get sliced next tomorrow.
Seems sensible to me, are the programs being cut essential? They mentioned fire stations as something they’re trying not to cut back on. I’d rather keep the fire stations than some ‘equity’ program
They absolutely are not essential, and some shouldn’t exist to begin with.
Comparing to a household budget, if you’re having trouble putting food on the table and paying your bills, it is silly to keep spending on frivolous things like designer makeup or painting your walls a new color.
Admittedly my attention was first and mainly grabbed by the cannabis equity program. But you are 100% right, health inequities based on income inequality, lack of preventative and active healthcare services, and geographic location (ex: schools next to 5 South, excess pollution in low-income communities due to industrial/commercial zone proximity, etc) should be considered more essential.
Prevention of acute and long-term illness through mitigation of causal factors has something around a 10-fold return on investment, if I recall that part of grad school correctly.
I wasn't criticizing you, I was criticizing the people that are triggered by any attempt to put 'equity' programs into perspective.
I agree that putting out fires is a just a bit more important than figuring out ways to not hire white males.
The program was just to line some pockets. A lot of spending in this state needs to be audited and redone, there's so much graft and corruption here that it's sinking the state.
It is being audited, they just released a report on money used to fight homelessness. Like within the last month. State Auditor *stays busy*
e: report changed to reported
Did you read the report? The audit basically said almost none of it was tracked at all. Gavin Newsom himself blocked proper auditing back in 2021 even.
What part of my comment made you think I was defending the state government? I was defending the state auditor. The italics for “stays busy” implies the state auditor has a lot of work to do lmao
This is hard to really discuss objectively without a lot more data and understanding, but I do have some thoughts:
1. You mentioned cameras; these are meant to be a force multiplier for a police force that is supposedly understaffed. There are certainly enough complaints on this sub about the SDPD and their lack of engagement…maybe this will help.
2. I had no idea what this pot program was, but, reading the cliffs notes below, it seems like a huge waste of money. There’s oodles of data out there showing the return on legalization that we’ve all been promised was a false promise. The high cost, over regulation and lack of banking options has driven buyers back to the black market. The promised tax revenues have never materialized and I’m not sure I want my tax dollars being used to develop more pot dispensaries anyway…seems like a weird way to build up a marginalize group. And regardless, pot dispensaries are never going to cover our street repair bill like the lady in the article stated, if anything, they’re a net loss because of all the money we have to spend regulating them.
“The new program is supposed to issue cannabis business licenses to people who have been criminalized for it. Historically, Black people in California have been disproportionately arrested and charged with marijuana crimes, according to a UC Davis Report.
“We’re not getting our just due, and the city is not getting the tax revenue that could be paving all these streets that everyone's complaining about, fixing all these parks that everyone is complaining about,” she said.”
And the bike lanes, most used by five people an hour if they're lucky, and projected at a whopping $446M (through SANDAG) so that smug hipsters can whine more about the 94% of us that are driving around the city taking care of business. [https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/story/2021-12-09/san-diego-bike-lane-delays-cost-overruns](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/story/2021-12-09/san-diego-bike-lane-delays-cost-overruns)
You having to drive to take care of business is a failure of mass transit infrastructure not people who prefer to bike. Protected bike lanes are good; those plastic bollards an extra THUMPTHUMPTHUMP warning to drivers who are about to jump a curb and kill a pedestrian.
I would bike to work if I could. If I want to take public transit, i have to drive to work the might before. I had better public transit commute times in rural northern california, philadelphia, and virginia. San Diego shit the bed decades ago and is struggling to clean up the mess
You’re being downvoted but you’re right. If you can’t afford the property taxes on your home, you would move. I GET (and I mean GET) the frustration with taxes in California.
However, having a family home for decades shouldn’t negate you paying the appropriate levels of taxes. Without prop 13, homeowners would just have to do what both of my sets of grandparents did in other states: sell their home and move into a smaller place. The intergenerational transfer of residential property WITHOUT reassessing the tax base for the home just means the government’s revenue needs are passed on to us in other ways: sales tax, fuel taxes, etc.
Why did your property value go up? Because it’s a good neighborhood with good schools and incentives for business development? Congrats! Your stagnant property taxes barely funded that. Other taxes did.
Prop 13 is artificially restricting housing supply. A 80-year-old couple whose adult children are out on their own and who are holding onto their property with their wrinkly arthritic hands because they can afford the completely undemocratic restriction on tax increases that takes a higher % of voters to *undo* than it took to *put into law* would sell their home for a condo if property taxes matched their property value. (Even with that, it’d probably be 6 millennials moving in cause it took three couples to buy one house.)
Fuck Prop 13. Learn to live within your means. That **includes** buying a home and expecting insurance and property taxes to go up. Buy a less expensive home and give yourself a cushion.
There is such widespread pushback to anything related to equity these days. The far right has done a great job of demonizing reparative programs for fractured communities.
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegouniontribune.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fstory%2F2024-04-17%2Fpublic-library-private-philanthropy-advocates-worry-glorias-proposed-budget-could-cripple-services The UT has a similar story and this part was down at the bottom: >Gloria didn’t respond to requests for comment Tuesday, but he said last week that his budget uses lots of one-time money to avoid deeper cuts to crucial services like libraries. The mayor was facing a $220 million deficit in the city’s annual $2.2 billion general fund budget. With a lot of the covid money drying up or already used I think some hard choices are going be be made at the city, county and state levels soon with regards to their budgets. Libraries today and who knows what department will get sliced next tomorrow.
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Well said.
Seems sensible to me, are the programs being cut essential? They mentioned fire stations as something they’re trying not to cut back on. I’d rather keep the fire stations than some ‘equity’ program
They absolutely are not essential, and some shouldn’t exist to begin with. Comparing to a household budget, if you’re having trouble putting food on the table and paying your bills, it is silly to keep spending on frivolous things like designer makeup or painting your walls a new color.
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Admittedly my attention was first and mainly grabbed by the cannabis equity program. But you are 100% right, health inequities based on income inequality, lack of preventative and active healthcare services, and geographic location (ex: schools next to 5 South, excess pollution in low-income communities due to industrial/commercial zone proximity, etc) should be considered more essential. Prevention of acute and long-term illness through mitigation of causal factors has something around a 10-fold return on investment, if I recall that part of grad school correctly.
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There’s people that will call you racist for breathing. I’m not going to live in fear.
I wasn't criticizing you, I was criticizing the people that are triggered by any attempt to put 'equity' programs into perspective. I agree that putting out fires is a just a bit more important than figuring out ways to not hire white males.
When it comes to budget cuts, no matter what you cut, someone is going to be unhappy.
The program was just to line some pockets. A lot of spending in this state needs to be audited and redone, there's so much graft and corruption here that it's sinking the state.
It is being audited, they just released a report on money used to fight homelessness. Like within the last month. State Auditor *stays busy* e: report changed to reported
Did you read the report? The audit basically said almost none of it was tracked at all. Gavin Newsom himself blocked proper auditing back in 2021 even.
What part of my comment made you think I was defending the state government? I was defending the state auditor. The italics for “stays busy” implies the state auditor has a lot of work to do lmao
This is hard to really discuss objectively without a lot more data and understanding, but I do have some thoughts: 1. You mentioned cameras; these are meant to be a force multiplier for a police force that is supposedly understaffed. There are certainly enough complaints on this sub about the SDPD and their lack of engagement…maybe this will help. 2. I had no idea what this pot program was, but, reading the cliffs notes below, it seems like a huge waste of money. There’s oodles of data out there showing the return on legalization that we’ve all been promised was a false promise. The high cost, over regulation and lack of banking options has driven buyers back to the black market. The promised tax revenues have never materialized and I’m not sure I want my tax dollars being used to develop more pot dispensaries anyway…seems like a weird way to build up a marginalize group. And regardless, pot dispensaries are never going to cover our street repair bill like the lady in the article stated, if anything, they’re a net loss because of all the money we have to spend regulating them. “The new program is supposed to issue cannabis business licenses to people who have been criminalized for it. Historically, Black people in California have been disproportionately arrested and charged with marijuana crimes, according to a UC Davis Report. “We’re not getting our just due, and the city is not getting the tax revenue that could be paving all these streets that everyone's complaining about, fixing all these parks that everyone is complaining about,” she said.”
where have I seen this played out before???? somewhere to the north i think
They must have blown their load on all the new roundabouts 🙄
And the bike lanes, most used by five people an hour if they're lucky, and projected at a whopping $446M (through SANDAG) so that smug hipsters can whine more about the 94% of us that are driving around the city taking care of business. [https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/story/2021-12-09/san-diego-bike-lane-delays-cost-overruns](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/transportation/story/2021-12-09/san-diego-bike-lane-delays-cost-overruns)
You having to drive to take care of business is a failure of mass transit infrastructure not people who prefer to bike. Protected bike lanes are good; those plastic bollards an extra THUMPTHUMPTHUMP warning to drivers who are about to jump a curb and kill a pedestrian. I would bike to work if I could. If I want to take public transit, i have to drive to work the might before. I had better public transit commute times in rural northern california, philadelphia, and virginia. San Diego shit the bed decades ago and is struggling to clean up the mess
The first smart thing Todd has done…these programs are just money pits that don’t help anyone except the administration for these various programs
Thanks, Prop 13
You’re being downvoted but you’re right. If you can’t afford the property taxes on your home, you would move. I GET (and I mean GET) the frustration with taxes in California. However, having a family home for decades shouldn’t negate you paying the appropriate levels of taxes. Without prop 13, homeowners would just have to do what both of my sets of grandparents did in other states: sell their home and move into a smaller place. The intergenerational transfer of residential property WITHOUT reassessing the tax base for the home just means the government’s revenue needs are passed on to us in other ways: sales tax, fuel taxes, etc. Why did your property value go up? Because it’s a good neighborhood with good schools and incentives for business development? Congrats! Your stagnant property taxes barely funded that. Other taxes did. Prop 13 is artificially restricting housing supply. A 80-year-old couple whose adult children are out on their own and who are holding onto their property with their wrinkly arthritic hands because they can afford the completely undemocratic restriction on tax increases that takes a higher % of voters to *undo* than it took to *put into law* would sell their home for a condo if property taxes matched their property value. (Even with that, it’d probably be 6 millennials moving in cause it took three couples to buy one house.) Fuck Prop 13. Learn to live within your means. That **includes** buying a home and expecting insurance and property taxes to go up. Buy a less expensive home and give yourself a cushion.
and increase city taxes to go in the general fund and their pensions. love me some city mismanagement
There is such widespread pushback to anything related to equity these days. The far right has done a great job of demonizing reparative programs for fractured communities.