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I continue to work on building a platform that lets people use the digital currency revolution to leverage their potential, the way startup companies are empowered to issue stock to leverage their potential.

The biggest way I think I stand out in this election is that I’m looking to push the party to not just relish in its super-majority but to work really hard on big new creative solutions to help Californians get the most out of their potential.

I do support these bills but they are not enough. At [my website] you can find my plan to end unnecessary police violence, once and for all.

Taxes like those on capital gains can have some negative consequences on the economy, but taxing rich people for living in expensive homes has a negligible consequence on the economy. In addition to a split roll, I believe we need to look at raising property taxes on the wealthy.

We need to increase urban housing supply by at least two percent every year for the foreseeable future. We can do this by removing zoning restrictions and other obstacles that prevent increasing our supply of urban housing; creating incentives to build new urban housing; and if that’s not enough, the state should just build the housing itself.

I’m also interested in creating completely-free communities, where everyone can have a home entirely to themselves, in less-populated, less-expensive areas for long-term homeless people to have peace and support to build up their potential.

We need innovative solutions like what I propose at [my website].

I don’t think 5C is the right priority, but I wouldn’t commit to opposing it at this time. Perhaps the added lanes could become dedicated lanes for my proposal.

I support local rent control laws. I would also support a reasonable statewide limit on rent increases, while allowing local governments to impose stricter limits.

We need to keep the community involved and make sure adjacent residents aren’t adversely affected. One of my campaign promises is to try to have the largest local legislative internship program possible. A whole team of interns could be dedicated to community outreach on this issue. Obviously, I do look forward to many benefits from the Revitalization Plan.

If Europe and Asia can enjoy high speed rail, there must be a way for Californians to enjoy it also. We may have to take some things back to the drawing board, and maybe even look for creative funding sources such as making fares payable with a new cryptocurrency and launching an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise money for it. I am not ready to give up on it entirely.

I’m extremely sensitive to any indignity to LGBTQ people and families. This is something I feel personally. In my early twenties, I helped 15 lesbian and transgender couples conceive children through privately-arranged sperm donation (not through a sperm bank). These children and all LGBTQ families are always in my thoughts.

Government needs to make sure frameworks are in place for all LGBTQ people to live without fear of abuse or oppression, and to enjoy their lives with the dignity they deserve.

I will work with the Legislative LGBT caucus to zealously support any public policies to protect the wellbeing of LGBTQ people.

[1] Militarily demobilized. Since WWII—which was both the death knell of European colonial empires as well as the starting shot of the American neocolonial era—Europe has had notoriously scant standing armies, and has been able to consistently slash government military spending domestically and as a percentage of their contributions to international diplomatic bodies such as the UN. This is because nowadays European nations very rarely find themselves in situations where they need to independently send their militaries abroad in order to secure trade routes, foreign resources, or privileges within markets overseas; the U.S. has been fulfilling that hard-power obligation for them for over half a century. The social results of Western Europe’s decreased militarization are striking, especially when contrasted with the U.S.: there is not a single country in Western Europe without universal healthcare, labor rights and welfare systems are strong, value is placed on corporate and financial regulation, environmental policy is lightyears ahead, and, not least of all, there is a robust governmental approach to curbing digital surveillance and reining in tech monopolies. Japan enjoys a similar arrangement with the U.S. in which it, too, is militarily demobilized yet is given full access to, and prominence in, the global economy. In the last decade there has been a reversing trend of remilitarization in some of these nations. That trend was hastened during the last four years as a result of Trump’s ultranationalist politics, but is likely to continue even after his departure in large part due to the growing bipolar geopolitical climate of competition between superpowers.

The “owner” bit of home-“owner” appears in scare quotes throughout the text for reasons that will shortly become apparent.

Nothing signals trouble quite like consensus.

More on them later.

And, anyways, what exactly remains “obvious” in an era “post-truth”?

I take as my starting position that even the “obvious” must be won.

It’s like Lenin said, you know…

Whether directly, or through a chain of investments, or through the wider speculative market in real estate.

I use “banks” in this piece as a stand-in for several sources of income that derive partly through the mortgaging of property and/or investment in institutions that have the power to mortgage property.

That is just its “ideology.”

The Ricardian “law of rent” explains that any location with an advantage over another location, can accrue an economic value, called “rent,” to the owner.

This happens without the owner needing to pitch in to create the advantage.

If the owner does pitch in, then the value accrued from that advantage cannot be called “rent.”

“Rent,” in economic terms, is only, precisely, the value accrued from that portion of the advantage for which the owner is not responsible. That is what we mean when we say, “Rent is theft.”

This does not mean places with lower property taxes ipso facto have higher property prices—and that is because the property tax is only one of the contributing factors. You could have zero taxes on land in Antarctica, for instance, and it would still sell for $0. This is why the introduction to the analogy controls for such variables.

This is the logical conclusion of believing two premises:

(1) All humans have an equal right to the Earth.
(2) Vaginal birth is a lottery system

Prop 13 is rent control for home-“owners.” You can learn more about its history and impact here.

“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. Act 4, Scene 5

This is why the lobbyists who spend the most money to support the mortgage interest deduction are bankers, mortgagers, and realtors.

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