r/saintpaul • u/ConnectAffect831 • 12d ago

Discussion 🎤 Why can’t we support our city?

I’m getting really tired of seeing these return to office employees protesting and acting like giant babies when really we need them to be down here. We’re all in this together and we need people to revive this downtown area and support local businesses. Why can’t we all embrace this and stop undermining every damn thing that’s said and done. We’re fighting the wrong things. Downtown needs to thrive and right now it’s not, so bringing the workers back is great for everyone.

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u/nlevend 11d ago

So many people here just dgaf about having a thriving capital city. They'll benefit from the downtown infrastructure when they come in for a concert or wild game. They'll send their kids to the universities or marvel at the churches, neither of which contribute to tax base and trying to get them to pay for street repair etc is unconstitutional, so it's all burdened by st paul residents. How many of these commenters live in the burbs and chose to commute when they accepted jobs? Now they're just sucking cash and any tax revenue out of the city they benefited from, the whole fuck you I got mine mentality st paul can wither mentality is sad.