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San Diego's welfare plan for hotel owners
I think during SDCC with the foot and car traffic it could easily take 30 min+ to get between the main convention center and the annex.— April 27, 2016 2:54 p.m.
San Diego's welfare plan for hotel owners
Yes - it's just common sense. But B and C dominate the priorities of the public discussions.— April 27, 2016 1:45 p.m.
San Diego's welfare plan for hotel owners
If an average person takes a walk downtown what thought is most likely to occur? A. Downtown SD needs a better solution to it's homeless issue. B. Downtown SD needs a bigger convention center. C. Downtown SD needs a football stadium. I'm guessing A would be the thought most likely to occur to an average tourist.— April 27, 2016 11:46 a.m.
San Diego's welfare plan for hotel owners
I wouldn't have a problem with it if there was a TOT increase specifically for the 3 major hotels on Harbor in order to pay for a convention center expansion. Those 3 hotels are the primary beneficiaries of convention center business so if they want to pay for a convention center expansion I'm fine with it. Those 3 hotels should some private financing agreement between them (maybe Hyatt, Marriot, and Hilton kick in a total of about 500M private funding to expand the convention center). If it's worth 500M to those three hotels then they should spend the money. I really question whether or not there is a great benefit to San Diego other than to the 3 hotels on Harbor.— April 27, 2016 11:13 a.m.
Attorney general Kamala Harris's predictable "malpractice"
Such brazen corruption is beyond appalling. But I still think the most amazing story about Brown and the PUC is the anti-corruption bill that was passed 100% by ALL DEMOCRATS and ALL REPUBLICANS in both the Senate and Assembly and was still vetoed by Brown. It almost seems like that was a symbolic acknowledgement by both sides of where we stand. Brown is corrupt and will protect the PUC. Everyone knows it. Nobody will do anything about it.— April 24, 2016 11:10 a.m.
Qualcomm braces for impact
In my opinion Intel and Qualcomm are similar in a way - they have both made fortunes based largely on leveraging market dominance in one critical product. The revenue streams from both company's one critical product may be dying soon so they are both in trouble. Intel's success for almost 40 years has been largely due to one chip: the 8086 CPU, and its' derivatives. Intel has developed the world's leading process foundary and has the world's best CPU architecture, and has been able to leverage their monopoly in the 8086 CPU business to great success. Qualcomm's revenue stream and business models have been more diverse than Intel's but their revenues are still largely based on licensing CDMA and leveraging their strong position in that space. It remains to be seen how well both companies adapt to a changing world.— April 24, 2016 10:33 a.m.
Still no showers at San Diego state beaches
It is very hard to make sense of the decision to keep the water shut off. It's truly a trivial amount of water compared with, say, the amount of water used by almond farmers. When something doesn't make sense there could indeed be fraud of some kind involved.— April 18, 2016 9:32 p.m.
Still no showers at San Diego state beaches
This is the dumbest thing ever. The amount of water used at the state beaches is trivial.— April 18, 2016 9:01 p.m.
Qualcomm pays half the tax it should owe
It does seem very complicated and hard to stop. Usually with these schemes I can at least play Monday morning quarterback and pretend that I understand at least the very basics of how the system works. It does seem like international cooperation is required. I don't know if a ban on U.S. tourists visiting Switzerland, Grand Cayman, etc would help and/or would be warranted.— April 17, 2016 8:04 p.m.
Qualcomm pays half the tax it should owe
Thanks Shirley. I try to think about these things in terms of what I think would be fair and what would work in practice. I must admit this is a tricky question. It's one of those things that is hard to define exactly. It's pretty obvious, for example, that Apple isn't an Irish company. But if they have Irish subsidiaries bringing in revenue then how do you prove all that money should go to the US? Is Apple a 100% American company which owes taxes on 100% of their earnings to the US? I don't know exactly how to define all these things. It's clear that what many of these companies are doing is grossly unfair but might be legal.— April 17, 2016 5:05 p.m.