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by yonran 5y ago
I think in principle, an income tax is similar to a land value tax in that both of them are trying to capture monopoly rents. Compared to the property tax, the land value tax exempts investing in improvements, just as the income tax exempts
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by yonran 5y ago
> Sales and property taxes are regressive. Income tax with marginal tax brackets is progressive. This is a pretty simple concept. Not true. Income taxes (as implemented in the US) have enormous blind spots that favor homeowners at the ex
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by yonran 5y ago
In 2020 Stephen Martin-Pinto ran for Board of Supervisors (aka city council) in the West Portal district (District 7) but was rejected as a matter of course (since he’s Republican). As a candidate, he was refreshingly honest about his posit
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by yonran 5y ago
> Rents in CA (bay area in particular) are a function of demand more than landlords' cost Exactly. In other words, especially where supply is constrained, the property tax is incident on the landowner rather than the tenant. > my
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by yonran 5y ago
I disagree with that article (which repeats the ITEP WhoPays report). It incorrectly assumes that the incidence of the property tax is on the renters that occupy a house rather than the landowner. If you think that property taxes are more r
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by yonran 5y ago
I thought it would have been a better workaround to the Aereo ruling to have separate companies for the antenna + digitizer hardware and the DVR software. If one company simply offers a VM in the cloud that has an antenna and digitizer of v
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by yonran 5y ago
Can podman machine create a shared volume between your Mac and your container?
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by yonran 5y ago
Interestingly, it is the Left faction of San Francisco politics that have been slipping clauses like that (allowing legislative amendments, but requiring an estimated percentage that would overcome the current opponents and requiring amendm
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by yonran 5y ago
Did the cops give the scooter shop a citation for failing to record the source of the stolen article on https://www.leadsonline.com/ ? (This post from last month recounted how a laptop repair man in New York City got in trou
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by yonran 5y ago
> Luckily the W3C deities gave us exactly such a gift in the form (pun intended) of the enctype attribute. Minor quibble: enctype="text/plain" didn’t come from W3C. HTML 4.0 forms only defines enctype="application&#x2
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by yonran 5y ago
Regarding the violation for electronic records of used goods for sale, he read the summons in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965BLLWv8h8 . The citations were for Administrative Code §20-273 https://cod
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by yonran 5y ago
I don’t have a problem with the tools in the tax code to defer realization for capital gains taxes during a lifetime e.g. 1031 exchange, traditional 401(k) or IRA, in-kind redemption for ETFs, etc., so long as the taxes eventually do get
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by yonran 5y ago
“Lots of people don't fill out all the choices” is an important downside. We’ve had Instant Runoff Voting in San Francisco since 2004, and people still don’t fill out all the choices, so their votes are discarded whereas the voters pro
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by yonran 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. Please print out and sign the petitions! https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/
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by yonran 5y ago
> these kids are not broken. > we are calling it "merit" It sounds like you’re arguing about who deserves the prestige of going to Lowell rather than who actually benefits and contributes to the experience of attending c
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by yonran 5y ago
I think bunnypapr would have been perfect to protect teachers if safety were the primary concern https://bunnypapr.com
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by yonran 5y ago
The San Francisco Board of Education have made many displays of incompetence and malice this past year which have been covered by both local and national media. During the pandemic, the Board of Education announced that 44 schools were name
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by yonran 5y ago
Did you read the article? Yes, selective admissions filter out “bad” students including the type of students who don’t care about school who hold back students who do care; the problems of the article are virtually nonexistent at Lowell. I
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by yonran 5y ago
So the focus of the article should have been on eliminating the step up basis (which ProPublica admitted is a bipartisan thing to do) or other ways of avoiding capital gains tax rather than conflating tax avoidance with tax deferral. And al
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by yonran 5y ago
> 2020's Prop 19 to reform property taxes just a bit had about $20 million behind it, and it didn't even land on the ballot. Correction: in 2020, Proposition 19 (which limited Proposition 13/58 property tax breaks for par
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by yonran 5y ago
I read the articles about Robert Tillman (e.g. https://missionlocal.org/2019/04/historic-mission-district-l... ), and apparently the only thing he did that made him a “total jerk” was making a proposal to produce a
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by yonran 5y ago
I bet many banks have similar language prohibiting sharing logins, so you could make the argument that the core business of Plaid could be considered hacking under CFAA. I hope that the legitimate use of tools to do things on the Internet w
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by yonran 6y ago
To add more context, only a few cities (Berkeley, Santa Monica) had strong rent control with vacancy control in the 1980s and 1990s. Other cities, such as San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, had rent control but have always allowed the
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by yonran 6y ago
> My understanding is Prop 19 is easily evaded by trusts No, trusts do not evade Proposition 19 (although some people scrambled to transfer to children with a trust before Feb 15 to avoid Proposition 19’s new terms). Under Proposition 13
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by yonran 6y ago
I hope that eventually we will return to more predictable police power and broad taxation, as described by this quote: “The Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was
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by yonran 6y ago
The author, Nick Hanauer, has a podcast ( https://pitchforkeconomics.com/ ) that is heavy on demonizing the very rich 1% and vaguely blaming “neoliberalism” (by which he generally means Milton Friedman-style libertarianism; n
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by yonran 6y ago
> Paul Revere’s participation in a Revolutionary War campaign “connected to the colonization of the Penobscot” tribe It’s even more ridiculous than it sounds. As documented in the Families for San Francisco report https://fami
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by yonran 6y ago
Yes, the redevelopment of owner-occupied housing is a win-win if you believe that more supply reduces rent. Scott Wiener’s SB 50 in 2019 was exactly such a bill; it would have allowed redevelopment of owner-occupied housing into apartments,
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I feel like I’m reading a repeat of dismisive comments of how goofy masks are a year ago. So far, almost all the comments are focusing on appearance rather than effectiveness. The benefits of a PAPR include far better filtration than a surg
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by yonran 6y ago
In case you were unaware, there were two proposed constitutional amendments that would reduce Proposition 13 benefits this past November: Proposition 15 (which would have eliminated commercial property tax breaks) failed 48%-52%. I think it

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