R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D., P.E.

R. Jacob Baker, PhD, PE
professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering

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Chip packaging and bonding to printed circuit boards, information

Printed circuit board layout using Eagle

Some examples using MATLAB

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The following types of governments are bad.

Totalitarianism - government asserts control (beyond laws to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) over all aspects of peoples' lives (e.g., who they can love, what they can believe, the news they get, etc.). There are no personal freedoms (choices) in a totalitarian governed country.

Authoritarianism (much more common in modern times than totalitarianism) - limited individual freedoms, which are set by the government. Extreme authoritarianism (no freedoms) is totalitarianism.

Fascism (uncommon in modern times) - government is run by a dictator using force.

Socialism - government runs, either by ownership or over regulation, all businesses. There are no privately run businesses in socialism.

Communism - government owns all property and runs all businesses. There is no private property and there are no privately run businesses in communism.

Democratic Socialism or Communism - the government in socialism or communism is elected.

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Who pays the most individual income tax in the United States? (Source, Tax Foundation, the nation's leading independent tax policy nonprofit. Numbers below are representative and taken from data provided by the IRS for 2022 where the total individual income tax collected was $2,136,333,000,000.)

The top 1% (a tax return with an annual adjusted gross income greater than $663k) of people paying taxes paid 40.4% of the total US individual income tax revenue.

The top 10% paid 72.0% while the bottom 90% (a tax return with an annual adjusted gross income less than $178k) paid 28.0% of the total US individual income tax revenue.

The take-away is that the bottom 90% of people paying taxes in the US (138,421,257 tax returns) paid considerably less income tax than what was paid by the top 1% (1,538,014 tax returns). The top 1% paid $863,078,000,000 while the bottom 90% paid $598,173,000,000.

Another fun fact, the bottom 50%, a tax return with an adjusted gross income of $50k ($30/hr after the standard deduction) or less paid only 3% of the US individual income tax.