<story><title>Downtown S.F. on the brink: It’s worse than it looks</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sfnext-downtown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>How about &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; false dichotomy:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police, or it aggressively puts up taxes on businesses to cover the shortfall and drives them out of the city,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s always &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to slash spending on basic city functions!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to raise your taxes!&amp;quot; but &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to cut all these unsustainable social policies!&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diogenescynic</author><text>SF spends literally hundreds of millions on the 7,000-8,000 homeless. If they need to cut programs, that should be the first. It&amp;#x27;s not only excessive spending, but it&amp;#x27;s totally unaccountable. They could just buy the homeless RVs in Bakersfield for less than they spend to leave a bunch of junkies on the street and still have overdoses that exceed COVID deaths.</text></comment>
<story><title>Downtown S.F. on the brink: It’s worse than it looks</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sfnext-downtown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathanaldensr</author><text>How about &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; false dichotomy:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police, or it aggressively puts up taxes on businesses to cover the shortfall and drives them out of the city,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s always &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to slash spending on basic city functions!&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to raise your taxes!&amp;quot; but &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;ll have to cut all these unsustainable social policies!&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>&amp;gt;My biggest fear is the city either has to slash spending on, say, police&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want this to turn into an ideological battle, but my understanding was that in SF, that is not an unpopular stance. Is this not the case?</text></comment>