Please, oh please, will someone, will some court somewhere, yea will God Almighty himself, strike down the obscenely evil, regressive tax measure which is called Proposition 13. A stiff property tax on homeowners is a necessity whenever residential development is controlled by "community land use rights." If property taxes are limited, then the majority homeowning class will have a conflict of interest when trying to make development decisions which truly benefit the entire community, including non-homeowners, the working poor, students, et cetera.
A much higher property tax used to be the penalty homeowners would pay for their votes to restrict residential development. Homeowners love to restrict development because it creates a shortage of housing, and then the value of their own property goes up. This is an unconstitutional conflict of interest, right here! If homeowners decide to LIMIT their contribution to the community by limiting their property taxes, then laws must be passed to LIMIT, even eliminate, community land-use rights. Ideally, under California's Prop-13, a developer should have the right to build a home anywhere, anytime, PERIOD.
So, what does this have to do with Governor Terminator, the state budget crisis, and cutbacks in school funding? Well, if the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Prop-13, and there are multiple grounds to do this, then fairness would be restored to California. The California "Plantation Society" of homeowners enslaving everyone else, including future generations, would be gone with the wind. California would once again have enough money to fund schools and infrastucture. California without Prop-13 would have affordable housing, and it would be a paradise refound.
So, please everyone out there, don't whine about school budgets! Get off your duff and start an effort to get rid of Prop-13! If you still think Prop-13 is good, that it is heaven-sent, then you are deluded, and you deserve every lousy, rotten public school system you get with all the budget cuts to come!!
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Posted on May 15 at 10:47 p.m.
Please, oh please, will someone, will some court somewhere, yea will God Almighty himself, strike down the obscenely evil, regressive tax measure which is called Proposition 13. A stiff property tax on homeowners is a necessity whenever residential development is controlled by "community land use rights." If property taxes are limited, then the majority homeowning class will have a conflict of interest when trying to make development decisions which truly benefit the entire community, including non-homeowners, the working poor, students, et cetera.
A much higher property tax used to be the penalty homeowners would pay for their votes to restrict residential development. Homeowners love to restrict development because it creates a shortage of housing, and then the value of their own property goes up. This is an unconstitutional conflict of interest, right here! If homeowners decide to LIMIT their contribution to the community by limiting their property taxes, then laws must be passed to LIMIT, even eliminate, community land-use rights. Ideally, under California's Prop-13, a developer should have the right to build a home anywhere, anytime, PERIOD.
So, what does this have to do with Governor Terminator, the state budget crisis, and cutbacks in school funding? Well, if the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Prop-13, and there are multiple grounds to do this, then fairness would be restored to California. The California "Plantation Society" of homeowners enslaving everyone else, including future generations, would be gone with the wind. California would once again have enough money to fund schools and infrastucture. California without Prop-13 would have affordable housing, and it would be a paradise refound.
So, please everyone out there, don't whine about school budgets! Get off your duff and start an effort to get rid of Prop-13! If you still think Prop-13 is good, that it is heaven-sent, then you are deluded, and you deserve every lousy, rotten public school system you get with all the budget cuts to come!!
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