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it was a plan to consolidate multiple tax credit allocation committees by (then) State Controller Betty Yee and, yes, Treasurer Fiona Ma derailed it. Wont happen if Betty Yee is our next governor.

"disproportionately attracts high-income white homeowners" is inaccurate. In reality, it disproportionately repels low income groups.

the shortest path between two points is a straight line so if everyone switched to flying autonomous drones it would reduce VMT. 😜

Politicians need to stop talking about “home prices” like they’re realtors. The reforms that YIMBYs advocate for show up as lower RENTS and CONDO prices that are LOWER than detached homes but still profitable to build and sell.

I am, but the gerrymandered map proposal thing is about congressional districts, not state legislative districts.

Aren’t they talking about the state legislature approving a state ballot measure that would gerrymander the congressional map? I don’t think it has anything to do specifically with state legislative redistricting or election systems, does it?

For congressional districts yes, but I’m talking about the state legislature.

My advice to @votealexlee.bsky.social is this: propose that in exchange for gerrymandering all of our congressional districts for Dems, we transition the state legislature to a nearly gerrymandering-proof system like multi-member proportional districts. So we never have talk about “fair maps” again.

But these days, “Financial Independence; Retire Early” is extremely centrist/right coded.

The left loved Jefferson for so long because in many ways his lifestyle is the goal of the working class: stable personal wealth and so much leisure time that you can partake in a bunch of weird hobbies and actually get get at some of them.

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

thank you for being here and sharing this moment with us, @royals.com

Invite to Henry George Day picnic 9/1 3pm at Lake Merritt Labyrinth in Oakland with Georgist org Common Ground CA.

I’ll be hosting the 2nd annual Henry George Day picnic at Lake Merritt on 9/1 with @cacommonground.bsky.social.

Come thru to celebrate.

Screenshot of a podcast episode titled “The NYC Landlords Most Worried…” from the Odd Lots podcast series. The screen shows a highlighted quote from the episode: “I always really like talking to Ben. I had not realized the sort of, I mean, there was a lot there that was interesting, that sort of, that source of the disparity in property taxes. It makes a lot of sense that if you just can’t raise property taxes at a certain clip, how, you know, relatively undertaxed, any sort of booming neighborhood, such as Williamsburg will inevitably end up being. Yeah, that seems like a problem, given that like a big chunk of the recent story of New York City is gentrification and all these neighborhoods where like a warehouse that used to cost, I don’t know, 100,000 in the 80s now costs like 10 million or whatever.”

What’s been going on in California for nearly 50 years should blow these people’s minds.

I remember when I took CS188 the professor said a better name for the course was not “artificial intelligence” but “computational rationality”. But the trendy AI of today is often very irrational in its decisions 😂

What I mentioned is not hypothetical, it’s the primary thing allowed under San Francisco’s Residential Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance under Chapter 41A of the San Francisco Administrative Code. Specifically it protects any unit occupied by a tenant within the last 7 years.

Not sure if this is the comment you refer to but what if the “rebuilt units” replaced by multiple units started as a single family detached home that was sold by an owner-occupier and hasn’t been occupied by a tenant for several years?

Free rent promos (reduced amortized cost over the lease period) are technically an example of lower housing prices. Or maybe by “house prices” you mean specifically sale prices of detached single family homes? Then we’re really not comparing the same things.

We have them split too (though we don’t really do anything with that data like tax them at different rates) but the assessments are based on “prop 13 base year assessments”, yes.

I wish we could make charts like this in California but the state constitution pretty much makes it impossible

And you can completely disregard profits here... If sales of your patented product don't generate profit margins high enough to cover the tax then did you really need a patent?

So this should end up being more like a gross receipts tax for the patented products. Maybe 5% on the first $5M in revenue then 10% on the next $10M, etc... ratchet it up until you top out at 50% for revenue over $500M ?

QT because I can't reply, but the right way to tax patents (I think) is to have a progressive tax on the annual revenue generated by the product that is patented. Assessing the "overall patent value" is going to be hard but with product sales there are literal receipts.

Reasonable how? Like split-rate with higher taxes on land value rather than improvements?

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No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.” - William Levitt

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Hey @urbanlandrent.foundation, whats that one book by the late Anne Haila about that one county that actually achieved many of the goals of a property state?

We lack in social safety net because so many people believe in the merits of property-owning democracy which is “necessary to break the constraints of welfare-state capitalism and manifest a cooperation of citizens, who each hold equal political power and potential for economic advancement” 🤡