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California's property tax system is completely messed up to prevent that person from ever having to move or be impacted in any way. Why does that person get to
by zip1234 5y ago
California's property tax system is completely messed up to prevent that person from ever having to move or be impacted in any way. Why does that person get to be exempt from change when everyone else has to deal with it?
- sagarm 5y agoThey could just file for postponement or use a reverse mortgage/HELOC to pay their societal obligations. This idea that people should get to keep the entire windfall while shortchanging their communities is ridiculous.
- majormajor 5y ago"The person causing change should pay for it" seems equally reasonable as a starting point. Perpetual growth has problems of its own. California's mistake may be ONLY protecting homeowners from newcomers bringing change, and leaving renters out to dry.
- epistasis 5y agoI don't think "perpetual growth," is really what people complain about. what they really mean is that they want to shortchange everyone who does not already have housing. There are a finite number of people with finite needs. Growing the housing stock to house this finite number of people is not "perpetual growth" and it's downright offensive to say that when we camps of homeless people, camps of people in RVs without other housing, camps of people in their cars, people working full time but only able to afford overcrowded housing, and at the same time enormous wealth within miles. A society that allows such destitution while others have enormous wealth is not one that is running well. It shortchanges us all, economically.