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Why yes, because hoping to take this insane amount of money flowing into the city (and state!) and use it to make everyone else's lives that much more livable is a terrible, horrible, no good very bad thing. I'm sure nobody involved in the tech sector has ever benefited from any public monies; it's only right that they shouldn't have to pay any taxes!

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And yes, giving extravagant monies to the government makes everybody lives better, cures cancer, and causes world peace too!

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Having lived in cities on various parts of the city-services spectrum, I do think it overall improves the quality of life to have higher city taxes and more services (especially public transit). But fortunately people who think otherwise can choose where they want to live accordingly, since many cities are available on different parts of that spectrum. For example, if you prefer the tax/services tradeoff Houston makes to the one San Francisco makes, you can live in Houston (and many people do).

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