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I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. It’s a perfectly acceptable solution and has been tried with great results in El Salvador. I would argue that El Salvador is safer than SF and has a way more friendly tax policy. And the government is not trying to actively punish you for crimes you never committed, in the case of reparations.

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Because unfortunately, ideology trumps reality on anonymous message boards. Too many posters here, despite the high end white collar work they do, cannot seem to apply similar smarts to managing society, instead falling back on their own biases and personal preferences. Harsh punishments are not "good", but living in a decaying drug-infested society with no solution is worse.

Some of El Salvador tax policies are friendly for corporations. But for wages, income above 27000/y gets taxed at 30%.

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