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But parcel taxes are added by popular vote of city/district residents, so they almost always pass.

• CrowFly 11y ago
  Right. And don't forget -- Senior Citizens exempt themselves from parcel taxes and renters don't usually see these reflected in rent increases. So you have a majority with little to lose by voting to tax "other" people. I'm always amazed how the techno-libertarians on yc-hews go full communist when it comes to Prop 13 and the right to own property! And exempting seniors from this taking has a racist element--keep the existing white people from being taxed, but tax the younger people who are moving in.