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what do you think that the new people can do that? The old ones haven't well I don't think the board has really done their homework when it comes to taxation. There are other kinds of taxes which are fair and can provide a relief to the property

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owner. And right now this has to be done. I think we can come up with law enforcement programs that really can afford a greater degree of public protection. Putting the patrolman on the beat in priority areas is certainly one of them, but there are others also

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and I for one intend to speak out very loudly about this pollution of our bay with our sewage. As you know when it rains all of our raw sewage is dumped into the bay and the bay is becoming a septic tank for half of the state

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of California. And this is wrong and we must stop it. I think that much of the beauty of the city is withering away with a growth of obscenity pollution in the bay, in the air we face a major garbage problem. I

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think that San Francisco has an imperative mandate to lower the tax rate and I think it can be done. I think we made a start in that direction this year when we cut $23 million dollars from the budget. And if we continue to hold the line

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on spending and have only responsible analytical program budgeting where we can control what is being spent so it isn't dissipated in salaries and administrative costs so that the recipients or the intended recipients do receive the benefits of the program. And then if we couple that with

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an increased tax base, which we can do so beautifully by revitalizing our industrial area south of market and encouraging as much expanded major construction in that area will not only be adding many, many millions of dollars to the tax rolls, but we'll be bringing in jobs

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and industrial jobs is what san Francisco needs. They need not only the construction jobs, but after the buildings are completed, and especially if they are industrial in nature, it will provide a brand new working force and new working potential.