u/robert_cortese

The Bay Area transit tax is proposed to increase sales tax another .50% on the November 2026 ballot. Let's take another look.

The labor costs of Bay Area transit agencies don't make sense when agencies claim they are broke and then want regressive taxes, which disproportionately impact the poor, to underwrite the compensation. Below you will see the Muni cost structure - but you could pick any Bay Area transit agency and will get to BART later.

I guess you could say "isn't great to see transit workers getting paid like doctors and lawyers." But by every measure these cost structures are not sustainable and are running transit into the ground. Voting yes on the transit tax is further underwriting these comp packages - of course you may agree with it, but the issue here is transparency. What is also astonishing about Muni is its employees have a 26% absentee rate ie Muni workers are out every fourth day on average.

Make any of this make sense.

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Filed under "I hate my neighbors and this is what I will do when I win the lotto"

Under the proposal, a single-family home could be demolished and replaced with as many as 10, 12, 14 or even 16 housing units, up to three stories in height, with no parking requirements and zero public hearings. Residents who have lived next door for decades would have no formal opportunity to provide feedback.

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So Turbo posted about the county shutting down illegal food carts. The usual hugboxers got their Pantalones in a twist over it, and reported it as hate.

Scrolling further down to my own comment.

Really?

In neither Turbo's post, or my comment is identity or vulnerability brought up anywhere. All that's brought up is the lack of licenses to operate, and a lack of food handling certification.

I just hit this.

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As far as the rest of the reports.

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I'm not wasting time on you. If the reddit mods see an overabundance of reporting abuse, you get banned.

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People in that other subreddit would simply tell her \"Ride a BIKE BEEEYOTCH!\"

This is supposed to be a sub where talk critical of San Jose's culture and politics is welcomed. Unfortunately, there are still hugboxers here so upset by the mere existence of this sub, they feel this overwhelming need to come here and be this meme.

most of the hugboxers in real life

THIS IS NOT YOUR SPACE. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. GO BACK TO THAT OTHER SUBREDDIT WHERE YOU CAN PRETEND SAN JOSE IS FUCKING CANDY AND LOLLYPOPS.

This isn't about rules 1 or 6, this is about a contingent of people maliciously coming here for the sole purpose of disrupting the type of discussion we would like to foster.

From now on you will be perma banned, muted, and comment deleted. That is all.