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A slightly more moderate proposal favors an 80% land tax to allow for some margin of error in assessment. ... which, of course, is unconstitutional (Prop 13).
by DrScump 10y ago
A slightly more moderate proposal favors an 80% land tax to allow for some margin of error in assessment.
... which, of course, is unconstitutional (Prop 13).
- bmelton 10y ago> which, of course, is unconstitutional Which means that you'd need only to amend the California constitution to repeal or modify that amendment. I'm with you in that I definitely do not favor violating a constitution of any sort, but because amendments are possible, we should not pretend that constitutions are set in stone, as they are amendable. We should also not attempt to pass policies that violate the constitution by methods other than amendment, of course.
- nwah1 10y agoCalifornia is unique in this regard, and is paying the price for it. I'm sure it must be nice for older landowners to see windfall profits thanks to the productive activity of others, but surely there must be a better way of helping people save up for retirement than to make the area completely unaffordable for younger people.
- beamatronic 10y agoThis will change only when these older landowners lose political power