Title: THE COLLAPSE OF CALIFORNIA Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp7cFdQPsFA Published:Aug 4, 2018 Author:Staff Post Date:2018-08-04 22:50:40 by Horse Keywords:None Views:1883 Comments:14
The people of CA have brought this on themselves. They elected the people that allowed this. I lived in CA form 1975 until 1987: I saw the start of the decline then. Tax the people give them what they wanted. The death blow was Porp 13, in the mid 1970's. I know people living in CA, in $300,000 homes and paying less that $5,000 in prop taxes
I know people living in CA, in $300,000 homes and paying less that $5,000 in prop taxes.
What's really sad is so many people like you think THAT is the problem. You spend so much time focusing on and damning the pebble that you never even notice the boulder.
The PROBLEM is NOT that people with homes valued at 300k are paying less than 5k in property taxes on them.
The REAL problem is that in a normal world,these would be 100k houses. The Communists that run California used real estate appraisals as a way to fund their state welfare programs,and if you are a devout Communist with all YOUR money tied up in tax-free trust funds,there is no "purer" way to raise money to house and feed the po than to make those evil selfish people buying houses one step above basic apartment living pay the bill for DARING to pose as the equals of their bureaucratic masters in government.
I have a half-brother living in a cinder block house in San Jose that his father built in 1955. Corner lot,but nothing special. 3 br,1 bath,1 car detached garage and small back yard that was barely enough for a swing set and a blowup plastic child's pool when he was little.
If it hadn't been for the freeze on property evaluations brought forth a couple of decades ago he would be forced to sell it or lose it for unpaid taxes.
Which is precisely what has happened to newer houses across the street from him that weren't covered. Everybody that bought them had to either sell them and move away,or just walk away from them over unpaid tax bills and move away. When I was out there in the mid-70's a lot of them had already been torn down and replaced with 3 or 4 story "partmints fo de po". Guess what happened to his peaceful neighborhood.
Now he CAN'T sell it and move because he won't get enough out of the sale to replace it.
Those people and those homes are not in Silicon Valley. There are Mexican and black neighborhoods with low prices but we cannot live there. They won't let us.
There are Mexican and black neighborhoods with low prices but we cannot live there.
When I lived in Chicago, my ex partner was on the West Side. He knew some friendly Puerto Ricans there. They had some good weed. One time he was there the cops picked him up. They said, "What are you doing around here?" He told them about picking up weed. Then they said, "Why don't you have a gun? We don't even come around here without guns?" They kicked him out of the car in the wrong neighborhood.
He was walking down the street and the Ricans were sitting on the front porches. They said, "Hey Whitey? What are you doing around here?" One of them grabbed him by the arm and spun him around. He shot him with the pen gun he had in his shoes which he took out and put together after the cops kicked him out.
He told me he ran his ass off to get back to his car. The pen gun was a .32 short single shot. It was a good hold out. I had a machinist make it for me in Chicago. I think I paid him $50 for it but can't quite recall. ;)