You simply cannot tax the lowest paid and hardest working people in our city the highest percentage of taxes and expect anyone to get ahead enough to start shopping at and supporting new businesses.
If people cannot even afford to keep their utilities on, how in the world are they supposed to get excited about a new restaurant? What does it say about us as a society that just the city alone rakes in $130+ per month from people bringing home $1,300 a month? What kind of out of touch representative votes to approve that kind of dead end taxation? You cannot fix a homelessness problem without supporting the lowest income wage earners and that starts with an end to the insanely regressive taxation being perpetrated on the blue collar workers who keep the city working.