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Concerning illegals, aren't there plenty of them in Orange County as well as LA County? Why are they affecting LA County's services so much more than OC's? My working hypothesis runs to the pure and simple incompetence of LA County, but I thought it would be interesting to raise the issue.

I think that by using illegal aliens as scapegoats, we are giving incompetent and corrupt officials cover for their exceptionally poor performance. If we say "The poor dears, our hard-working bureaucrats are just beset by illegals", then the "hard-working" bureaucrats aren't going to be taken to task.

Is that not a good point?

Proposition 13 - which I support, just to make things clear - does a lot for people who own property for a long period of time while it's appreciating. It doesn't help me right now because my house gets reassessed to its full value.

I think my property taxes are pretty high in view of the services I get for them. I understaned property taxes elsewhere are higher as a percentage of value, but that's largely compensated for by the cost of property itself. In other words, I have a 1.25% property tax, and other states have 2.5% property tax. But I have a $428,000 home and they have $200,000 homes. So the absolute values are similar.

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