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pherford's comments
Posted Tue, Oct 4, 7:25 a.m.
Flat tax: Might their be a quid quo pro? Research is needed to establish whether it would be possible for a WA flat tax that would offset 1/2 of sales tax receipts. What level of flat tax would do that? Imagine a state that had a 4% sales tax, or ...
MOREPosted Tue, Jul 6, 8:02 a.m.
Facts and thoughts. Shanghai is far from China's largest city. Chungking at 33-36 million is the world's largest city; that is 30+% more than Shanghai. Pudong, part of the Port of Shanghai in the past was also farmland across from the oft-shown "Bundt", that legacy of colonialism in China that ...
MOREPosted Mon, May 4, 7:47 a.m.
Why is the waterfront debate an either/or proposition? The "tourists'" waterfront is currently bordered by working waterfront on either side. Does that need to change. SAM's sculpture park rises above working piers and the trolley garage. Imaginative use of space is a far better solution than the usual adversarial argument ...
MOREPosted Sat, Apr 7, 7 p.m.
Work in progress: My niche made the advent of Crosscut of particular interest. I live and work in China but Seattle is home. The Seattle Times and PI websites have been daily stops on my daily Internet tour of the world; this makes the two papers my standards. Therein lies ...
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