poindexter said:I don't even bother with the Howard Jarvis boogeyman. Prop 13 for California is like a broken pinky finger on a man with cancer of the liver.
Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
There are other problems here, most notably the proposition -- "too much democracy" -- problem, but the primary problem is Prop 13, which created/empowered two generations of citizens to say, "i got mine, who cares about yours?"
these are people who rail about taxation yet literally should not be allowed from their driveways since they don't pay their fair share to pave the street. their argument is, 'i put my kids through school, i paid my taxes all these years, why should i pay anything more now?'
why? because this is not 1978. and here's just one example: for a couple years i lived in hermosa beach next door to a wonderful couple, both retired and in their upper sixties. they bought their house in 1968. in 1978, their assessment was frozen at $700 per year. conservatively, they are currently sitting on a $3,000,000 property.
i don't want them taxed out of their house. i just want them to pay what is fair. if they were assessed at today's value, they'd pay $30,000; i don't want that for them or anyone who (EDITED to change "likes likes" to "looks like") looks like them, but $700 a year in hermosa beach, california is not fair. and anyone who starts yammering about unions, or spending problems, or any of the rest of that nonsense just doesn't get it.