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Discussion around San Francisco's Proposition C (e.g., nitter.vloup.ch/Scott_Wiener/sta…) made me wonder if SF's Gross Receipts Tax is as bad as it sounds. Knowing about the real estate transfer tax, which uses progressive rates based on the entire value (not margin), I expected the worst.
Today I’m joining Mayor @LondonBreed & Assemblymember @DavidChiu in announcing our opposition to Prop C. We must invest in homeless services & housing, but Prop C - the largest tax increase in San Francisco history - is the wrong approach. My statement: medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/sen…
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Murkowski's recent electoral history:
2010 R Primary:
51% Miller
49% Murkowski (inc)
2010 General:
39% Murkowski (write-in)
35% Miller (R)
23% McAdams (D)
2016 General:
44% Murkowski (R)
29% Miller (L this time)
13% Stock (I)
12% Metcalfe (D)
She beats challengers from right.
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Since I checked the numbers before retweeting (since I do that):
Using the census 2017 population estimates (adding exactly, then rounding), I get 181.45 million for the No senators and 143.58 million for the Yes senators.
Seems close enough, but curious why a bit different.
Do local governments in California have the power to mandate modifications like that? (Or do they just have the power to condition permits for some modifications on other ones?)
3. Don't nap.
4. But it's fine to go to sleep early-ish (7pm, 8pm?) on the day you arrive.
5. don't be afraid to entirely decline the meal on the plane if it's at a non-eating time at the destination, and you don't expect to be hungry. (Carry a snack in case, though.)
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1. try to sleep 3-4 hours on the plane, preferably during night in the destination timezone. Even if you can't sleep, literally just sit there with your eyes closed.
2. stay physically active (walk, a lot!) when you arrive, for at least the day you arrive and day after
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Totally depends on whether you're the person who can't sleep on a plane or the person who can't stay awake on a plane.
As the former (can't sleep), and someone who does 9 hour time changes a few times a year, my strategy is:
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Double gradient stop positions (useful for solid-color stripes) are now supported in @FirefoxNightly thanks to @eqrion. Work was done in bugzil.la/1352643. This allows syntax like:
linear-gradient(to right, white 25%, silver 25% 50%, gray 50% 75%, black 75%)
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Also, San Mateo county annual population growth numbers:
2010-2017: 1.0%
2000-2010: 0.15%
1990-2000: 0.9%
1980-1990: 1.0%
1970-1980: 0.5%
1960-1970: 2.3%
1950-1960: 6.5%
1940-1950: 7.7%
But it's better for the environment to have the growth in the denser core than to sprawl outward, so I think it's critical to look at metro area growth as a whole.
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The poll choices correspond to 1.8%, 3.6%, 7.1%, and 14.3% annual growth rates.
For comparison, annual population growth rates in the bay area were:
2010-2017: 1.2%
2000-2010: 0.5%
1990-2000: 1.2%
1980-1990: 1.5%
1970-1980: 1.1%
1960-1970: 2.4%
1950-1960: 3.1%
1940-1950: 4.5%
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That would be around 44,000 units/year.
That's also 1.3% growth per year, which is only a hair more than the (housing-constrained) 2010-2017 population growth rate of 1.2% per year.
That rate doesn't quite keep up with *actual* population growth, never mind the demand for additional population growth that's suppressed by housing costs. So I'd think prices would likely continue to rise, although more slowly.
Also worth noting that FDR tried something similar in 1937 and it failed; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judici… . But the court today is being viewed as more of a partisan institution and thus commands less respect; the Garland nomination (and Kavanaugh) continues to move it that way.
More feasible, since it doesn't require constitutional amendment, and ending lifetime tenure would.
(I've also heard a suggestion of staggered 9- or 18-year terms to match up with the number of seats. But again, requires constitutional amendment.)
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To put it another way -- the next time Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and House, they'll increase the Supreme Court to 13 or 15 seats, and it won't be a bigger deal than what happened to Garland. Or, at least, that seems like the least disruptive outcome.
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