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>Raise property taxes That's difficult in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_P

>Raise property taxes That's difficult in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

koolba 9y ago
I didn't say it was easy or politically viable. It's almost funny how bad that law is for young people.
- ThrustVectoring 9y ago
  It was voted in by Boomers, what do you expect?
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    > It was voted in by Boomers, what do you expect? Boomers weren't the politically-dominant generation at the time Prop 13 was passed. I know people like to pretend all of history is divided between "Boomers" and "Millennials", but at the time of Prop 13, leading edge Boomers were in their late 20s and trailing edge Boomers were tweens. It's less accurate to say that Prop 13 was voted in by Boomers than to say Trump was elected by Millennials. Prop 13 was voted in largely by the “Silent” and “Greatest” generations. Insofar as Prop 13 is unfair to young people, Boomers were the first young people that were on the recieving end of the unfairness.
icantdrive55 9y ago
I'm getting tired of defending prop 13. I guess it's a combination of projection, and our poor educational system? (Yes--I wish they talked about housing, property taxes, and political fiscal waste in school--any school? Repeal Prop 13. See what happens. Watch the politicians spend that money on everything other than housing. Hell--west Marin in California would be loaded with housing units if not for the millions of dollars Supervisor Gary Giacomonni spent fighting for his cause. He wanted to change the zoning to 100 acres per home. And with that big piggy bank of tax payer money, he pulled it off. In his last interview, he admitted if not for prop 13, that area would have highways, and thousands of homes, and apartments. We need to encourage developers to build apartments. Not luxury condos, but apartments. I actually given up on housing. I think we are at the point we need to make being homeless not a crime. We need to open up federal, state, local parks, and county land to camping, until we figure out this housing problem. I guarantee we will be talking about housing in ten years, and most of our income will be paying enormous amounts of rent.

>Raise property taxes That's difficult in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

koolba 9y ago

I didn't say it was easy or politically viable. It's almost funny how bad that law is for young people.

ThrustVectoring 9y ago
It was voted in by Boomers, what do you expect?
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > It was voted in by Boomers, what do you expect? Boomers weren't the politically-dominant generation at the time Prop 13 was passed. I know people like to pretend all of history is divided between "Boomers" and "Millennials", but at the time of Prop 13, leading edge Boomers were in their late 20s and trailing edge Boomers were tweens. It's less accurate to say that Prop 13 was voted in by Boomers than to say Trump was elected by Millennials. Prop 13 was voted in largely by the “Silent” and “Greatest” generations. Insofar as Prop 13 is unfair to young people, Boomers were the first young people that were on the recieving end of the unfairness.

icantdrive55 9y ago

I'm getting tired of defending prop 13. I guess it's a combination of projection, and our poor educational system? (Yes--I wish they talked about housing, property taxes, and political fiscal waste in school--any school? Repeal Prop 13. See what happens. Watch the politicians spend that money on everything other than housing. Hell--west Marin in California would be loaded with housing units if not for the millions of dollars Supervisor Gary Giacomonni spent fighting for his cause. He wanted to change the zoning to 100 acres per home. And with that big piggy bank of tax payer money, he pulled it off. In his last interview, he admitted if not for prop 13, that area would have highways, and thousands of homes, and apartments. We need to encourage developers to build apartments. Not luxury condos, but apartments. I actually given up on housing. I think we are at the point we need to make being homeless not a crime. We need to open up federal, state, local parks, and county land to camping, until we figure out this housing problem. I guarantee we will be talking about housing in ten years, and most of our income will be paying enormous amounts of rent.