Memo to Floundering Palo Alto Vice Mayor Pat Burt: A Business Tax, Explained.

Palo Alto could easily bring in more than $100 million a year through a relatively low-rate business tax aimed at only the city’s largest and most successful companies, ignoring small and medium size businesses altogether (other than generating funds to better support their growth). It’s so easy to prove. Yet, due to the irrationality and most likely the sexism of Palo Alto’s current leaders — Vice Mayor Pat Burt in particular — I am forced to explain this time and time again. While Pat Burt shakes his red-cheeked face, and…