My reaction was, if theyre that worried about it we should be that worried about it as well. I think focusing on the border is something thats very important. I think the economy i really do think that we need to have an immigration policy that understands and complements that promotes our commerce within the United States. We need to understand that immigrants are a very important part of our work force. I think that Legal Immigration can improve our economy can improve productivity, can result in increased jobs which will make Jobs Available for me citizens here in this country. I think there needs to be more of a focus immigration policy should be more focused on our economy, driven by our economic needs. We should have visas for skilled workers. We need in todays economy and todays security situation i think those are the two drivers of what our economic what our immigration policy should be going forward. What about a socalled pathway to citizenship . Well, i think pathway to citi
And then you have a little more wiggle room using either side of that equation to be able to reach your revenue neutrality. Okay, bill. Senator. We, of course, did it revenue neutral. I think the times today probably might require some additional tax. But i believe thats something that the committee has to work out itself. If you really do thorough tax reform, what you find is at least we found that upper income americans will pay a higher percent. For example, we cut the rate from 50 to 28 and yet the top 5 paid a higher percent of the total tax revenue after that reduction than before. Well the u. S. Is one of five Major Economies operating on a worldwide tax system. Meaning it currently taxes the income of its companies wherever that income is earned. Even if its not in our country. Currently companies have profits they earn back to the u. S. But they face a tax of 35 minus foreign tax credits. Those would not pay this additional tax and keep earnings abroad, deferring the additiona
Had high speed access and the change certainly reflects increased Data Intensity and increased volume of Internet Activity and between 7 and 11 every night netflix consumes a great deal of internet capacity and Everyone Needs higher speed to keep up with that and in terms of the common barriers to Broadband Access at home three factors stand out and one is availability, do you have access in your neighborhood at your resident do wires come to your house . In general San Francisco has good coverage we have lots of providers, but theres about 17 that we counted wired and wireless providers but when you look at just wired service for the home the number of providers drops down it is only one in certain areas but its higher than that there are 4 or more in certain areas so its not equally distributed across the city and we have a map showing the distribution in the report. We have many more choices for Cellular Wireless service but that has limitations the speeds offered are lower and caps
Average 69 percent connection rate when you look at the country as a whole slightly higher in california but lower than San Francisco. Fred can i ask you this is based on surveys and commonly surveys leave out Homeless People maybe immigrant populations and lower income populations so is it possible that its a large under count. Its certainly possible certain segments of the population are probably less well represented. Thank you and is the survey conducted in english only . I can they have multiple languages but i dont know how many supervisor. Thank you. Looking down at the distribution i mentioned 88 percent a high rate of connectivity but when you break it down and this slide shows the rates by supervisor ial district and the lowest in the high eighties still sounds good but you can see the range and district 8 has the highest, 94 percent and every other district in between but 3, 6 and 11 on the lower side and 8 and 4 are at the higher end. Breaking it down, then, by social i by
Invested in did not have open access to the distribution network, it would have been an entirely different story. This the difference this is what you can tell your constituents, that it is openness that is the core of creativity. Because there should be nobody acting as a gateway and saying mm, youre only going to get on my network if you do it on my terms. And the key then as we go to the previous discussion, what you want to do is make sure you have that gateway, not blocking the openness of entrepreneurs. At the same time that gateway, not being retail price regulated so that it can continue to invest, thats the kind of balance we were trying to do. But if i i would urge you to tell your constituents, the opportunity for innovation and the opportunity for the scaling that is required of innovation has never been greater because the networks are open. With all due respect, many people back in iowa would say youre trying to solve a problem that doesnt exist. Today. And i have a speci