No need to do all that research. Here's the scoop.

Sometimes it is worth foregoing a little tax revenue to entice a world-class business to seriously invest in being in the City.

Everyone does it. Every City, State and Country does it. Sometimes they're even given a name like, er Enterprise Zone.

It's a win-win for everyone. Except ageing, bitter liberals, I guess.

It's like saying the bible is true because it says so in the bible.

You cite Daly's bizarre essay as an example of something? In all of that der sturmer ravings he made one valid point, about tech companies in house services, other than that, he could have been writing for the Georgia states rights magazine.

Why is it that the Guardian positions are always a sentence for the cities poor having to live amongst thuggery?

What is the Guardians long term plan for mid Market, instead of the miserable Rush Limbaugh like bitching and moaning and no wrong answer whining and crying, what is the Guardians plan for the area? Reading Daly's Ernst Röhm essay, he's happy to have it remain a mess and sentence the locals to dealing with thuggery everyday.

This reminds me of the Armory, the entitled bitched and moaned for decades and then Kink moves and you don't get anything. No sales tax, probably a pittance of a payroll tax, a few dozen people in the area instead of hundreds spending money, a few dozen jobs instead of hundreds, all because of the ideological purity of stunted college commies and neighborhood activists.

When did The Guardian start practicing journalism? The articles are written and sourced to propagate one POV and one POV only. Heresy is punished with excommunication and if need be The Guardian "journalists" make facts up as they go.

This paper is more like an extended undergraduate school thesis than an actual agent of journalism.

Did Twitter threaten to leave San Francisco unless granted a tax break, or did high ranking City officials do what comes instinctively when in the presence of ten figures to the left of the decimal point, which is throw money at them in the form of a tax break?

Poor cities use tax breaks to lure businesses. San Francisco is neither a poor city nor lacking businesses. There is not consensus that Market Street is blighted. Redevelopment gave Westfield $26m in tax breaks for the Emporium site, so by that measure anything and everything is blighted if another dollop of corporate welfare can be slathered out.

Was this tax break demanded or offered?

-marc

Don't really have a major problem with gripes about this deal - but is it really a big deal in the scheme of things? If this were a relatively generic non-tech company and not "Twitter"- would anyone care? It's insignificant relative to the size of the City's structural deficit which is far greater than $400 milion...

Doesn't the CIty cut deals like this the all the time- I gather Sales Force rec'd some form of incentive. As much as the SF Giants like to extol their "privately financed stadium," the City spent about $25 million in the construction of AT&T park...

The real reason the Guardian keeps at this is because Kim beat the candidate they were pushing for office for the last, i don't know, 10 years. They've never gotten over it.

What to do about mid-market which will be at 50% vacancy by early next year - the highest in the city?

Redevelopment? No thanks. Residents opposed it before, will oppose it again. Plus it's a greater corporate giveaway than anything in this tax break deal. Does the Guardian tell you that Chris Daly cut the Rincon Hill and Intercontinental deals - far greater corporate giveaways than this mid-market tax break deal?
Nope of course not. Doesn't fit into their preconstructed narrative

You can say the city shouldn't give tax incentives to lure businesses to an area or keep them in the city. I will disagree with you on that issue but it is a fair point. The rest is window dressing and people should see it for what it is.

Remember the white out cover on the Guardian's endorsement edition? That's their vision for the city which voters soundly rejected.

Where has all the money gone? (sung to the tune of Where have all the Flowers gone?):

http://motherjones.com/print/99036

I hope, Tami, that you're correct that Jane will respond to the epidemic of violence taking the lives of young men of color, particularly this young Latino male murdered on Sixteenth and Mission Street; and the young Latino male stabbed at Seventeeth Street and Mission Street this weekend.

An honorary altar has already been set up on the sidewalk by grieving folks in the neighborhood as I stopped by tonight to pay my respects to the deceased, to the wounded, and to a struggling North Mission community. Will Jane pay homage, and has she visited the altar, and will Jane call for a joint community gathering with nonprofits, churches and residents - (not the police, for once) to discuss the root causes of social violence taking the lives of young men of color in the North Mission and throughout District 6?

Your points, however, on former Supervisor Daly's lack of response to the murders of young men of color in the District 6 during his tenure, certainly have substantial merit. So far in the Tenderloin, three young African American males have been violently killed as well this year.

As a matter of fact, on New Year's Day, District 6 was the location of this city's first homicides for 2011. I anticipate, tragically, that this epidemic will worsen, given the state of the city's economy and the social exclusion of young people of color that live in the other San Francisco. When young people of color tell the press that violence on the 14 Mission line is a daily occurrence, its' time to speak more truth to power. Thanks for your passionate advocacy.