George Runner, a Republican member of the state Board of Equalization, said the proposed referendum would spare not just Amazon but thousands of smaller online retailers, which he argued could not possibly handle the intricacies of collecting sales tax for California, and other states starting to demand it, too.
In 1979 HL&P said the plant was worth $238 million but DISD's board of equalization said it was worth over $242 million.
Some blame the very idea of equalization, others say schools are too dependent on property taxes, and still others argue that taxes are too low.
Contrary to what some "experts" might say, equalization of wealth does not hinder economic growth.
Such block-sparse signals arise in various application problems, say, DNA microarrays [7, 8], equalization of sparse communication channels [9], source localization [10], wideband spectrum sensing [11], and color imaging [12].
Rawlsian ideas are always a matter of equalization under constraints, where these constraints involve notions of fundamental rights — that's why Rawls didn't say "let's impose perfect equality, and deal with the incentive issue by using forced labor".
As an example, they say that their front-end nonlinearity does contrast equalization.
And these issues don't begin to address tax issues connected with partnerships, or the regressive nature of the payroll tax, or the simple matter that the wealthy have greater recourse to tax accountants and attorneys.Which isn't to say that progressives ought not to continue to fight for equalization of capital gains and income tax rates.
Notice that in elaborating equality of resources, it is assumed that a population of individuals with given traits, generated by genetic inheritance and early socialization, is present, and equalization is to proceed by adjusting features of the individuals' environment or by altering features of the individuals, say by extra education.
A no-fault proposal in the early 1990's failed because some legislators demanded provisions that addressed economic inequality, like equalization of lawyers' fees, Ms. Weinstein said.
