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  • N?NNN: Ballot Recommendations (November 2018)

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 28 August 2018 - 8:08pm

    It’s almost election time again, so these are the LPSF’s recommendations and thoughts on all of this fall’s local ballot measures. As always, the LPSF submitted arguments for the “free” official arguments to be printed in the Voters Handbooks, and we “won” the lottery for two of the ballot measures and submitted two paid arguments, all of which will appear in the Voters Handbooks mailed out in early October. As usual, our support of or opposition to a ballot measure hinges on whether it expands or shrinks the amount of governmental control of our lives. Increased taxes, debt, ordinances, bans, and mandates all tend to be the former, so that’s why the LPSF generally opposes most San Francisco ballot measures.

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  • Bonded

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 28 August 2018 - 7:10pm

    Since outright taxation, even for statists, has its limitations, bond measures have become the preferred method for politicians and vested interests to increase government spending, especially here in California. Since California voters passed Prop 39 in 2000 lowering the threshold for passage from 2/3 to 55% for school bonds, the approval rate for such bonds has soared to 80%. A report from the Little Hoover Commission, a “good government” independent state oversight agency, in 2009 pointed out the increasing problem of more and more long-term debt being approved both statewide and locally. It revisited the issue last year as the problem seems to have worsened as few of their recommendations from 2009 were adopted.

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  • No Shame No Principles

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 22 August 2018 - 12:07am
    No Shame No Principles

    Proponents of Prop C like to pose that the LPSF doesn’t think they have a plan to address homelessness in The City. In fact, we do believe they have a plan. This is a deflection from our real concern, which is that in order to fund their plans, they feel entitled to dip their fingers into local company coffers to “raise more revenue”. That’s a great euphemism for “stealing”.

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  • Uncommon Sense

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 30 July 2018 - 8:38pm

    Senator Wiener is at it again.  Teamed up with Assemblymember Phil Ting, they have introduced SB 221, which would ban the sale of all guns or ammunition at the Cow Palace beginning in 2020.  The Cow Palace is state-owned and located in Daly City on the cusp of San Francisco and San Mateo counties, and local officials have tried for years to shut down the guns shows held there.  This is the umpteenth attempt to pass such legislation, and previous attempts were vetoed by both governors Schwarzenegger and Brown, though with every school shooting that occurs, there’s been a greater push for “common sense” gun control.

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  • Mountains & Extortion

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 30 July 2018 - 8:35pm

    A $5,600 bill from the government for having an illegal chicken coop in the backyard?  A $31,000 fine for doing a minor expansion to your home without a permit?  A $4,200 bill for a Halloween decoration stretched across a road?  Sound too incredible to be true?  Think again.  In the world of government enforcement of “public nuisance” ordinances, nothing is impossible.  The cases cited above all occurred in California in the inland empire cities of Indio and Coachella.

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  • Underground SF Culture Still Has Its Charms

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 30 July 2018 - 7:39pm

    Not too many people have heard of political writer and agitator Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912), so I was surprised and delighted when a performer at a "secret garden" party I attended here in San Francisco earlier this month announced that she was going to perform a song written by the 19th century individualist anarchist.

     
    Left-anarchist singer-songwriter Erica, who goes by Unwoman after the banished women in Canadian sci-fi writer Margaret Atwood's dystopian "A Handmaid's Tale", proceeded to give a beautiful musical rendition of VdC's haunting poem "Written In Red" on the electric cello, a performance somewhat similar to which you can view here:

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  • January - July 2018: What We've Accomplished

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 19 July 2018 - 9:24pm

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    We've really accomplished a lot in the first half of this year! Thank you everyone who continues to put in the time and energy to fight for liberty in San Francisco! It's an uphill battle, and sometimes it doesn't feel so rewarding, but it's important work that wouldn't happen without our amazing activists and volunteers.

    So, take a few minutes to reflect on the first half of this year and ask yourself: how can we make the rest of the year even better??

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  • Keeping Out The Riff-Raff

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 29 June 2018 - 3:40pm

    With the Nimby’s and Yimby’s battling each other over land use rules in tackling The City’s and California’s housing problems, we wonder why so little is being said about another major cause of the high prices—urban growth boundaries (UGB).  UGB’s have been around for decades all along the west coast, so it should be no surprise that the highest cost of housing in the nation tends to be in California, Oregon, and Washington state. Boulder, Colorado has a UGB and not coincidentally very high housing costs too.

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  • Divorce—San Francisco Style

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    Submitted by Libertarian Par... on 29 June 2018 - 3:37pm

    Last weekend the LPSF hosted a booth at the San Francisco Pride 2018 Fair.  We’ve become a regular exhibitor (not literally!) at the fair for many years, and liberty-leaning folks always love to see us there each year with our brochures, posters, buttons, World’s Smallest Political Quiz, Spinning Wheel of Crazy San Francisco Laws, and other tricks of the outreach trade.  This year folks may have noticed that we were there under our own Libertarian Party of San Francisco banner, rather than Outright Libertarians, which we had used for the last 14 years. The general public probably didn’t even notice the subtle difference because to the average person, once you’ve seen one Libertarian, you’ve seen them all.

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