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> leads to people making their building worse on purpose. does this actually happen in practice? > I find it also quite disgusting how race angle is added to
by dominotw 6y ago
> leads to people making their building worse on purpose.
does this actually happen in practice?
> I find it also quite disgusting how race angle is added to every article possible.
I think ppl are aggressively building their 'anti-racism' cred. Slights are judged on your overall past history. Like the science writer at Nytimes who got fired for saying the word in sentence. It wasn't just about using the word but lack of his past 'anti racism' capital that led him to get fired.
Its very similar to govt records on individuals in soviet union. your slip ups might be forgiven if you have a strong history of supporting the party. Pppl would try to give pro party speeches in local neighborhood meetings to get that on their record, like a future insurance.
Modern day example is Putting your pronouns in your bio at work like like wearing stalin pin on your shirt, gives you some level of protection, but not putting pronouns might make you 'wavering' entity.
- cammikebrown 6y agoWell, it’s probably not what OP was talking about, but in California, thanks to Prop 13 people will deliberately not improve their home so they can continue to pay low property taxes, since they only go up a certain amount a year. Lots of long-time homeowners are paying ridiculously low property taxes, shifting the burden to new homeowners.
- kingsuper20 6y ago..or you simply don't pull a permit. 'Round these parts, it's more common than not to simply avoid getting the county involved when possible, although I don't doubt the building department uses satellite data to catch the more outrageous avoidance. You do have to wonder why your taxes go up if it were based simply on assessed value. Should the total .gov take go up simply because property values increased? I'd be more attracted to the idea if you took the government budget and parceled it up based on your property's comparative value. For one thing, people would keep a lot closer eye on expenditures than they do given a system where the tax never changes (or slowly increases over time).
- Glyptodon 6y agoI don't know about making buildings worse, but there are definitely those who avoid repairs and improvements, but I think it's often more complicated than just property taxes.
- washadjeffmad 6y agoYour examples are what we call loyalty tests, and they're used to manufacture consent. They're only effective when one side fully controls the argument, which is why questioning and debating are forbidden; either you accept even their most extreme and hyperbolic points, or you're a traitor to the cause. It's coercive anti-democracy in sheep's skin at its finest.
- beervirus 6y ago>does this actually happen in practice? At the margin, some people definitely will.
- s0rce 6y agoMaking it worse, maybe not, but avoiding making it better, or doing it very carefully to exploit loopholes, absolutely.
- jrmg 6y agoIf an effect of the disparity of assessment, which this article is about, is that black people are paying a disproportionate amount of tax (I don’t think you’re disagreeing with this?), do you not think it should be called out in articles like this? If not, why not?
- verall 6y agoAmazing how this goes from " journalists are trying to build credibility they are not racist" to "being trans is like wearing a Stalin pin and grants you some level of protection".