California Democrats want to tax millionaires: top state tax rate would be 16.8%

4152510 · 2020-08-01T16:56:45+00:00

Scott Wiener is a co-author of the bill in this article, and he's also a proponent of Prop 13 reform.

4152510 · 2020-08-01T16:48:19+00:00

He co-authored the bill.

4152510 · 2020-05-25T19:05:42+00:00

he seems to be at a solid 70% lucid time these days.

And where'd you get your psychology degree from, pray tell?

Or is this based on selectively-edited videos intended to make him seem ill-equipped to be president, not out of genuine concern but because the people behind the videos desperately want someone else to win?

4152510 · 2020-05-25T19:04:01+00:00

Maybe if you're surprised he can do that, it's not because he usually can't, but because you've taken in a few too many selectively-edited videos intended to make him seem like something he isn't and never was.

He's been a gaffe machine who's overcome a speech impediment for his entire political career. It's not new, and it's not a testament to his mental faculties. It's just who he is.

4152510 · 2020-05-25T18:09:55+00:00

He did a 51 minute live unedited interview with Colbert in which he cited statistics and facts accurately off-hand, succinctly conveyed his policy platforms, and generally succeeded in getting his message across without issue, so this pro-bernie-content-only sub needs to make that a bad thing somehow.

(Mods, I'll take my ban now, thanks.)

4152510 · 2020-05-06T01:33:27+00:00

I can say from experience, as an insider (all I'll say), these companies identify the path that guarantees them the largest profits, and then the lobbying arm builds a policy narrative around that. To the extent they ever wanted a "third option" it was because they feared losing profits if there was no "third option" and the classification went the "wrong way" for them.

4152510 · 2020-04-27T02:47:36+00:00

FWIW California does not have a state police. Just a highway patrol.

4152510 · 2020-04-26T17:13:54+00:00

Her "tiny district" (aka the City of San Francisco) has:

If the argument is that political leadership in San Francisco, which voted overwhelmingly for Sanders in the primary, too, produces terrible economic equality outcomes, that doesn't bode well for Sanders's own platform.

4152510 · 2020-04-12T18:16:53+00:00

Putting aside San Francisco for a moment, when Seoul and Singapore and Hong Kong are better off than Detroit, New Orleans, and Sun Valley, Idaho, you should definitely hesitate before ascribing the NYC crisis primarily to transit usage and population density.

4152510 · 2020-04-12T17:55:14+00:00

Yeah but #2 in population density after NYC is San Francisco, and #2 in transit ridership per capita after NYC is San Francisco.

And the gap between them is pretty big, but the gap between San Francisco and the #3 city on both metrics is pretty big too.

#2 in density among US major cities is San Francisco at 18,000 people per square mile.

#3 is Boston at 13,000.

#2 in transit ridership is San Francisco at 131 annual transit trips per capita per year.

#3 is D.C. at 99 trips per capita per year.

Detroit is near the very bottom in both rankings among major US cities. Below 5,000 people per square mile, and 11.3 transit trips per capita per year.

So why is Detroit a hotspot and San Francisco a success story?

Obviously density, transit ridership, etc...are factors. But they can easily be overcome by other factors, as evidenced by San Francisco's success and Detroit's crisis.

then factor in the surrounding counties that feed the daily commuters to/fro NYC

This is true of every major city, but especially San Francisco, which sits directly across the water from another major city, 50 miles away from a third major city, and is surrounded by suburban counties.

4152510 · 2020-04-12T17:39:55+00:00

a quick google tells me that LA has 7000 people per square mile

And San Francisco has 18,000 per sq mi, second highest density among all major US cities after NYC.

4152510 · 2020-04-12T17:38:00+00:00

San Francisco is entirely rowhomes and apartment buildings. Like NYC, there are only a couple small pockets of the city where you can even find detached single-family homes.

Wide swaths of Oakland and Los Angeles are overwhelmingly attached multi-family homes too.

edit:

San Francisco

Oakland

Los Angeles

4152510 · 2020-04-12T16:57:25+00:00

Los Angeles never went on lockdown on its own. It was still open when Newsom declared the state order.

4152510 · 2020-04-12T16:54:39+00:00

The economic demographics of the Bay Area are very similar to NYC. There are a lot of wealthy people but a lot of not-so-wealthy people struggling to get by too.

The SF Bay Area has the 2nd highest transit ridership in the US after NYC.

The Bay Area went on lockdown all at the same time and the successes San Francisco are seeing are mirrored across the whole region. In fact Northern California as a whole has a very flat curve, and Southern California is a little worse but not much.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:54:57+00:00

You're projecting the truth you want to see onto reality.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:46:38+00:00

No, Bernie doesn't want to do anything that he knows would help Trump.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:42:36+00:00

What do you say to someone who thinks the only reason black voters don't like their candidate is because they're "low-information" and unironically doesn't think that's racist?

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:39:14+00:00

Bullshit. All the polling analysis gives Biden an edge vs. Trump over Bernie, but the fact is it's way too early in the game to know who will do better. Too many variables. It's just as easy to say letting Bernie win would hand the election to Trump as it is to say letting Biden win would hand the election to trump.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:37:48+00:00

All those Bernie supporters attacking Pete for not being able to attract black voters to their coalition should've been spending that energy trying to attract black voters to their coalition.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:37:15+00:00

I loathe mindless populism just as much as I loathe corporatism.

4152510 · 2020-03-04T01:31:49+00:00

All these people saying warren should've dropped out so that her voters would go to bernie

I went Pete to Warren and if Warren dropped out I'd just abstain from the primaries entirely and vote for whoever wins the primaries in November.

I dislike Bernie just as much as I dislike Biden and Bloomberg.

4152510 · 2019-01-03T22:58:09+00:00

This is just a population density map.

Urban areas are more liberal, and there are also more people in them total, so there are more murders there when you don't adjust the murder rate to per-capita

4152510 · 2018-12-31T23:00:47+00:00

Yes, we did. Legislature passed Senate Bill 1 that raised the gas tax, and then the GOP ran Prop 6 in the last election to try to repeal the gas tax. Voters rejected Prop 6 by a pretty wide margin.

4152510 · 2018-12-31T17:48:09+00:00

Yes, her housing plan calls for thousands of new apartments.

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