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Speaker 1: In a Washington Post OpEd Bill Whalen of the Hoover

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Speaker 1: Institution asks if San Francisco is trying to hasten its

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Speaker 1: own demise. He concludes that they are. He says the

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Speaker 1: city looks like a ghost town because so many people

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Speaker 1: are working remotely. The office vacancy rates over the once

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Speaker 1: red hot real estate market is tanking rents of drop

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Speaker 1: by almost and there are twice as many homes for

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Speaker 1: sale today compared to a year ago. It's about to

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Speaker 1: get worse too. On election day, San Francisco voters approved

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Speaker 1: a proposition known as the Overpaid Executive Tax. It's a

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Speaker 1: surcharge tax for companies who pay their top people over

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Speaker 1: a hundred times what the typical worker makes. This tax

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Speaker 1: was tried in Portland, Oregon. It was a disaster. Corporations

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Speaker 1: did not lower executive salaries. They cut loose workers at

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Speaker 1: the lower end of the spectrum and replaced them with

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Speaker 1: independent contractors. They always find a work around. This week,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco's authoritarian Board of Supervisors held on another set

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Speaker 1: of restrictions on top of the harsh COVID rules. If

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Speaker 1: you live in an apartment, you cannot smoke any tobacco

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Speaker 1: product anywhere in your home period. However, smoking a doobie

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Speaker 1: a marijuana joint at home, well that's fine, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: People used to leave their heart in San Francisco. Today

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Speaker 1: you might lose your mind there