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> The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes.

Hold up. I don’t think the people of San Francisco grew weary of increasing rents and decided to turn to a life of crime.

Most of the “trouble makers” in the Bay Area are recent arrivals to the area and come because of poor policing and the government is generally more tolerant of them.



This is debunked every time it's brought up. The "trouble makers" you're referring to are local. It is not in fact the case that San Francisco mass-imports its downtrodden.


More like activists start the gaslight machine when people point out that a lot of the problem in SF is imported.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Honduran-Migrants-and-San-Francisco-D...

Here is the mayor apologizing for saying it. Not because it isn't true, but because you aren't supposed to say it out loud.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-20/san-fran...


Gross. This isn't about whether the majority of underclass people in San Francisco are native Californians, but rather a case that crime in the US is the fault of Hondurans and El Salvadorans. More Hondurans end up in Texas than in California, but nobody is posting memes about how order has broken down in Houston.


More Hondurans end up in Texas than in California

As a Canuck, immediately I thought "But Texans will shoot criminals".

True or not, the belief is there for many. That does have some power. maybe.


No, it doesn't.



Debunked with what data?




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