BART patrons enter Embarcadero Station in 2025. BART ridership is increasing, and San Francisco’s economy is improving after the passage of Prop M in 2024, which reformed the city’s business tax system. Prop C risks undoing those gains.

It wouldn’t be a San Francisco election without a set of dueling ballot measures intentionally designed to confuse voters.

In 2022, then-Mayor London Breed tried to streamline affordable housing permitting via the ballot, only to have that measure sabotaged by a competing effort from progressive members of the Board of Supervisors. Two years ago, Propositions D and E battled it out over commission streamlining.

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This year, in the June primary, Proposition C is the latest poison pill — conjured up to counteract Proposition D, the “Overpaid CEO” tax that doesn’t actually tax CEOs.  

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Understanding Prop C requires a bit of a backstory.

In 2024, in response to an economy crippled by the pandemic, San Francisco did the hard........

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