[dakine]

"then why should they benefit from its protection? that protection costs money, material, and personnel. no free-loading allowed."

Financially, the Bay Area generates a large amount of tax-dollars for the FedGov...so this financial "argument" doesn't fly....

[jimtorr]

Financially, the Bay Area generates a large amount of tax-dollars for the FedGov......

The Bay Area, yes, but this story is not talking about the bay area, just San Francisco school districts.

So much military and the people and businesses that go with it has moved out of San Francisco that I would not be surprised if the city is now a taking in more tax dollars than the city is paying. Even Bank of America moved out of SF, over to Oakland.