A lot of people are talking about the fact that the income tax is a more progressive tax, because it's based on your ability to pay in so far as your salary goes.

What has happened is, not only has CEIFA not really worked as far as the formula goes, but it hasn't been funded to the levels that were promised in it. Consequently, the state aid has remained pretty much flat for the last three or four years.

They didn't want 'those people' coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people clearly were making their opposition known to Henry Waxman.

It's not unheard of, in certain developing countries, for people to pay up to 20 percent of their yearly income in order to have a cell phone.

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

You've got 300,000, 400,000 people, many of them low income without a lot of means, who are not going to have the ability to wait out a year or two or three years for the region to rebuild.