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Fortwaynemobile saysNo it’s same issue.No. The way government budgets work is year by year, funded by those annual tax revenues. No one cares what you paid 30 years ago. Someone new coming into your neighborhood was paying into a tax system where they were previously at. Paying taxes isn't like paying into an investment fund that you get credit for in past years and enjoy the residual benefit so that you get to pay less. That's not the way taxes work. Go look it up.
You want equal, go pay me 30 years of taxes with interest and than we can talk about paying same amounts today.
If prop13 was gone...
Long time homeowners/elderly would pay equal taxes to new homeowners/young families.
BayArea saysIf prop13 was gone...
Long time homeowners/elderly would pay equal taxes to new homeowners/young families.
... and all of them would pay much more than they pay now, no exception.
DASKAA saysNailed it. Not sure what Prop 13 humpers don't get about this. They're obviously blinded by their selfish desire to get unfair benefit at new homeowners' expense.BayArea saysIf prop13 was gone...
Long time homeowners/elderly would pay equal taxes to new homeowners/young families.
... and all of them would pay much more than they pay now, no exception.
I disagree.
Prop 13 segregated population. If prop13 was gone, first it unites all and bring common uniform tax rather than new neighbors pay to old neighbors.
Then we can talk about the next topic of high or low taxes which is related but a different topic.
Until then prop 13 beneficiaries who own neighboring slaves never stop cooking stone soup and sell in the name of grandma, hating govt etc. and minting $$$.
Blue saysDASKAA saysNailed it. Not sure what Prop 13 humpers don't get about this. They're obviously bli...BayArea saysIf prop13 was gone...
Long time homeowners/elderly would pay equal taxes to new homeowners/young families.
... and all of them would pay much more than they pay now, no exception.
I disagree.
Prop 13 segregated population. If prop13 was gone, first it unites all and bring common uniform tax rather than new neighbors pay to old neighbors.
Then we can talk about the next topic of high or low taxes which is related but a different topic.
Until then prop 13 beneficiaries who own neighboring slaves never stop cooking stone soup and sell in the name of grandma, hating govt etc. and minting $$$.
So yeah, pay me 30 years worth of taxes that I paid into the system with interest than we'll be paying equally.
FortWayneIndiana saysSo yeah, pay me 30 years worth of taxes that I paid into the system with interest than we'll be paying equally.
You’re mistaking the “rent” you pay to the government for the privilege of owning a house under their jurisdiction with some sort of retirement account or investment. You’re a renter to the government. We all are. Sure you paid rent (at vastly unfair low rates) for 30 years but you also got 30 years of home ownership out of the deal. I’ve had mine for two and already paid $19,000 for the taxes. I figure that’s about 10 of your thirty years. In four more I’ll have contributed the same amount as you have.
So there!
FortWayneIndiana saysExactly. Prop 13 has created such inequity. No wonder Prop13-humpers are willing to fight to the death to keep their unfair advantage. Same reason the South fought so fiercely to keep slavery. Tunnel vision to their own selfish desires.So yeah, pay me 30 years worth of taxes that I paid into the system with interest than we'll be paying equally.
You’re mistaking the “rent” you pay to the government for the privilege of owning a house under their jurisdiction with some sort of retirement account or investment. You’re a renter to the government. We all are. Sure you paid rent (at vastly unfair low rates) for 30 years but you also got 30 years of home ownership out of the deal. I’ve had mine for two and already paid $19,000 for the taxes. I figure that’s about 10 of your thirty years. In four more I’ll have contributed the same amount as you have.
So there!
Prop 13 is fundamentally unfair in that some people pay much less tax than other people for the exact same government services.
Has anyone ever managed to rip a large govt program to shreds and start over with efficiency?
Germany, Japan, 1945
I think unfairness comes from tax free generational transfer.
But keeping it locked seems fine, because earning years go away by 50, without prop 13 we’ll have taxes just going up constantly, people losing homes. It’s what we had before Jarvis amendment.
I’d prefer primary residence tax free, all rental props reassessed yearly with higher rate too. This way people can live in houses, and rent seeking is taxed instead.
But keeping it locked seems fine, because earning years go away by 50, without prop 13 we’ll have taxes just going up constantly, people losing homes.
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Right now, you have this huge dichotomy in taxes - someone pays 2k per yr, while their neighbor pays 16k for a comparable house.
I think right now we pay about 1% of the assessed value in CA unless there's special junk like melo roos or w/e they're called. But, 1% would be way too much if everyone were paying it and the assessed value was updated yearly without any yearly growth caps.