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This is a strawman. Nobody is arguing in favor of 100% private beaches. Apparently I hold the most extreme view in this thread, and I'm proposing privatizing 2%
by chroma 9y ago
This is a strawman. Nobody is arguing in favor of 100% private beaches. Apparently I hold the most extreme view in this thread, and I'm proposing privatizing 2% of the coastline and taxing the hell out of it. The other 98% would remain public.
Remember: This proposal would mean millions more for social programs. I think things like education and health care are more important than ensuring everyone's right to access 100% of the entire coastline. (Which isn't even the case today, as the law rarely enforced.)
- sedachv 9y ago> Remember: This proposal would mean millions more for social programs. Why not just skip the middleman and raise capital gains and estate taxes? Also what would keep the 2% landowners from paying lobbyists and politicians to lower the coastline taxes, like they have paid to lower capital gains and estate taxes?
- chroma 9y agoRemember that this is a state policy, so it's pretty easy to keep the wealth out of state and avoid the taxes. California already has the highest capital gains taxes in the US and 2nd-highest in the world, so such tax avoidance is extremely common. Coastline can't be moved or hidden, making it much harder to avoid the tax.