[overdrivetg]

Do you have a source for your "SF collects $2800 per month per household in taxes" number?

This Quora answer[1] suggests it's more like $3300/person/yr. The 2010 Census says SF has 345,811 households, or about 2.35 people per household. So $3300 * 2.35 / 12 =~ $650/mo/household in SF.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-San-Francisco-make-in-ta...

[conanbatt]

SF budget is 11 bill. That quora answer is from 2011.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-budget-soar....

Even if you cut it inhalf for the general funds, it gives out 1400U$S per month.

[overdrivetg]

OK, I finally did what I think is the real, updated math:

According to [1] from 2018, "Roughly half of the budget consists of self-supporting activities at the City’s Enterprise departments"

So that leaves $5.5B in General Fund taxes.

According to [2], in 2017 SF had 884,363 residents with 13.4% under 18, so 765,858 adult residents.

$5.5B divided over 765,858 taxpaying adults is $7,181/adult/yr, or just under $600/mo.

You can roll that up into households if you want, but it feels more illustrative to have the number be per taxpaying adult IMO. Having said that, I'll buy your $1,400/household/month number as being basically about right.

I don't disagree with your point about high taxes, but I did want to actually see what the accurate numbers were. Thanks for the interesting discussion.

I'm in LA so I ran the numbers down here for comparison... We turn out to tax at $262/adult/mo, so SF's effective city tax rate is about 2.3x vs Los Angeles.

[1] https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_June...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycaliforn...