Aug 27, 2023
Editor's Note: In today’s Sunday feature, a surreal read from the American heartland intersecting the corridors of our largest technology companies, the United States Postal Service, and a wild culture of Chinese scam artists running more or less unchecked across the internet. It is a weirdly… charming tale? Of crime, modernity, and civic decay. But also hope. River Page reports — enjoy.
-Solana
the 'overpaid ceo act' jacks up gross receipts tax on the biggest sf businesses. we tried this during the pandemic and it forced them to leave, triggering a doom loop. get ready for part two?
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment
robert reich, 4'11" champion of california's 'wealth tax,' has built a lucrative career collecting taxpayer dollars to peddle anticapitalist rhetoric (he's also secretly a nimby)