No chance. There are lies and there are statistics. It misses the point about local taxes and fees.
If you flip it around, and ask, how much of your total income is used to pay taxes and fees for federal, state, and local taxes, the ones at the lower end will be paying a much higher percentage of their income.
There is only so much you actually have to pay for when you become rich where the folks on the lower end must pay for certain things that take a larger part of their income.
No chance it is “fair” and we know who is writing the tax laws.
If you flip it around, and ask, how much of your total income is used to pay taxes and fees for federal, state, and local taxes, the ones at the lower end will be paying a much higher percentage of their income.
This is simply false.
One can certainly argue that our tax code should be more progressive than it is, but denying that it is progressive at all is contradicted by the facts.
Progressive for federal income taxes, yes. But overall progressive, the answer is simply no.
Many places switched from part of income tax to fees. Skyrocketed increase for fees to national parks this past year. Went up 300% for a weekly pass. You apply that over and over again in many parts of your life, and it adds up.
It just simply costs more of the percentage of your income to live and because of it, it takes a bigger chunk of your income and thus isn’t progressive.
Lastly, Social Security is a kicker for the one thing that is flat out regressive. Capital gains pays zilch for it, and it stops at 127K or so of income. That tax is burdened by the middle class.
That’s chump change for the wealthy, but anyone hit by it is burdened less and less the more money they make.
And don’t tell me it’s a “fund”. That’s not how the GOP acts with it.
Uses Swagger/OpenAPI that then uses convention (or fully defined) packages, and methods for REST. Runs on top of Flask, and does a lot of all of the validation all from the yaml file. Plumbing taken care for you, etc. so you can focus on business logic?
I'm not familiar with Connexion (this was my first time hearing about it), but it seems, from reading its README, that the two approaches are polar opposites: in Connexion you write the schema first and that is used to hook up your API to your business logic, whereas in molten you write your API using normal Python code and idioms and an OpenAPI schema is generated from that code. As a user of Molten, you don't need to know anything about OpenAPI to be able to use it.
Molten does what I've seen in RoR land do. You decorate and document your schema. It then can spit out an OpenAPI spec, use its schema and tooling around OpenAPI.
So it becomes a choice. A decision of writing mostly OpenAPI, or writing Python via an API that is defined by someone (or a small set of people).
I'd personally rather learn OpenAPI specs as you're going to live in that world anyways, as it gives you so much tooling.
It's not hard, and you could take that yaml file and generate code for other languages in case Python's performance specifically for that API (especially it if is a microservice), runs too slowly in the real world and need a faster runtime, etc.
im Kind of stumped at the whole advanced life form contacting us thing.
1. We didnt even emit any real radio waves until just a century or so ago. How did they detect it to know to emit something to us?
2. How much power would that entity have to emit from that distance to be detectable by us?
3. And for civilizations more than 50 light years away, how did they know to even push a signal in our direction if they didn’t sense a single thing except maybe a certain type of atmosphere?
I had classes with him for the last few years that he taught at UCSC. He never had a text book for his classes that I took (graph theory etc). He also almost never used his computer in his office it seemed and enjoyed the theory quite a bit more.
Fun classes but alas, he passed away a few years later from cancer.
Dim Sum: Joy Luck Palace (Sunnyvale). LA, the one that’s very good is Five Star Seafood (SGV off of Del Mar). 888 in Valley a little east of that place. Don’t go to Elite, Ocean Star, or mission, IMO. They are kind of on par with Jou Luck Palace. Koi Palace(Daly City) and Flower Lounge(Millbrae), Mayflower(Milpitas) I would stay away from.
Seafood: Newport Seafood(SGV). The restaurants listed above are decent for the Bay Area with Mayflower a notch or two below.
Best Taiwanese street food: Sin Ba La (Arcadia).
Southland Flavor Cafe(Cupertino)
Lastly, in LA, the 626 Night Market is lots of crazy street food.
You don’t own a home or have depreciated a business property have you? You can depreciate the value of a building over time but not the property itself.
Land value is still land value and will never be “depreciated”.
What happens is that folks like Disney in Anaheim as well as it seems, Apple owned the land for a long time. So Disney’s real estate tax bill is near nothing for Disneyland.
That’s the pain of prop 13. Should have been modified for sure!
If you flip it around, and ask, how much of your total income is used to pay taxes and fees for federal, state, and local taxes, the ones at the lower end will be paying a much higher percentage of their income.
There is only so much you actually have to pay for when you become rich where the folks on the lower end must pay for certain things that take a larger part of their income.
No chance it is “fair” and we know who is writing the tax laws.