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mell says

Why is any house assessed every year and you have to pay taxes on their assessment?

This is how we in US have decided to do it for some reason. UK somehow survives with RE transaction tax only, no property tax in our sense of the word.

Eric Holder says

mell says

Why is any house assessed every year and you have to pay taxes on their assessment?

This is how we in US have decided to do it for some reason. UK somehow survives with RE transaction tax only, no property tax in our sense of the word.

i know many people from other countries too, nature of the Valley life (russians, ukrainians, armenians, georgians, mexicans). It's surprising how many of them own properties back in their home land and there is no such thing as property taxes there. None at all. And yet that government makes it just fine.

Yet here in CA, taxes are insane, and they constantly cry that it's not enough. It's fucking insane how much socialism we have here.

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

i know many people from other countries too, nature of the Valley life (russians, ukrainians, armenians, georgians, mexicans). It's surprising how many of them own properties back in their home land and there is no such thing as property taxes there. None at all. And yet that government makes it just fine.

A lot of them come here to suck at the welfare and government largesse tit while keeping property that they can flee back to at any time. They literally have contempt for USA for being so stupid.

One girl that worked for me said her mother was on every welfare ticket in the book, and owned five rental properties and a small farm in her native country.

A lot of the foreign health professionals are here specifically to tap into the insurance and public health fraud faucet. I heard one doctor say, "It's all about what you can get out of them." when referring to the medical consumer public.

Ceffer says

A lot of them come here to suck at the welfare

I know a couple together make a little over mil/y. The women brought her brother few yrs ago, later parents and bought a Prius and within 2 yr Tesla for them again and put them under gov offered health plan for elders, not sure what else they are after gov programs. He is a retired gov officer from India and still getting tons of gov pension there on top of his life time bribes.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

Taxing a business is worse than shooting babies in the face because theft of shareholder value.

Only tax cuts and shooting poor people in the back are reasonable.

Right, only dumbasses don't know the proper way to kill babies is to use tree trimming shears to snip the spinal cord at the origin of the Ligamentum nuchae.

If that doesn't work the next option is to use a strong dental pick to stab them in the head.

Why would anyone support higher taxes in a state that already has the highest taxes?
Maybe a loser who lives off the system and doesn’t care how many businesses flee the state.
First they go after the “rich” businesses, and next they go after “million dollar” residences and at the end they will tax all of us to death or force us to move to Texas.
No way I’m voting for that! All they need to do is cut spending.

First they go after the “rich” businesses, and next they go after “million dollar” residences and at the end they will tax all of us to death or force us to move to Texas.

Yes, and then the refugees bring the same voting policies that ruined CA and apply them in TX.

I agree with Zuck on this. I voted yes on Prop 15 and will vote yes to repeal Prop 13 for all the reasons stated by others. Then, everyone will freak out and we'll need a better form of levying property tax. I've said this before, but property tax should be assessed based on the size, type and location of the land, not the market price which is what kicks granny to the curb. Taxes should be levied based on the expenses that need to be covered.

CashWillCrash says

Why would anyone support higher taxes in a state that already has the highest taxes?

We're only supporting fairer taxes that get levied equally.

NuttBoxer says

Patrick says

Commercial property should not be exempt from property tax increases because businesses can live forever, never resetting their tax basis.

Fuck! California already has one of the most unfriendly private business environments in the country. And that's despite Prop 13. Prop 15 will just accelerate the bloat in the most bloated public sector in the US. Don't hold your breath waiting for those trickle down tax dollars to make it to you..

"Business unfriendly" cuts both ways with Prop 13. If you want to build a new business, you'll be paying full taxes on your new building whereas your competition, entrenched for 20 years, will be paying almost nothing. So, in this case, Prop 13 further stagnates the business environment.