Posted on 06/05/2019 7:08:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If approved, it would have imposed a levy of 16 cents per square foot of building improvements on properties within the district. On a 1,700-square-foot home, that would have amounted to another $272 of tax per year.
A parcel tax is not based on the assessed value of a property, but is generally a flat fee based on square footage. It requires a two-thirds margin for approval.
LAUSD desperately needed the tax to pass in order to cover the increase in costs associated with the latest teachers’ union contract.
In January, LAUSD’s 34,000 teachers went on a 9-day strike, the first such strike in 30 years. It finally came to an end when the district reached a deal with teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), which included a 6 percent pay hike for teachers and an increase in support staff at each school, such as librarians and counselors. The deal also included a reduction in class sizes.
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I agree it’s over. The Publix were delivered a final death blow with Plyler v. Doe.
We would do better for our youth to let them loose into the workforce at 14 like in Dickens tymes
Makes me want to think hard about retiring in Kentucky, even though my property taxes are only eight times that amount and vendors from New Jersey and New York tell me what a bargain we are getting . . .
But...but...but...That’s a sanctuary city. Right?
Yep, Texas has all kinds of little taxes. It’s not perfect but the money is better accounted for than a giant general fund.
WEll, I was thinking more along the lines of home schooling using the materials easily (and freely) available on the internet as well as sites like Khanacademy.com
Fact is, teaching your kids is something you can easily do BETTER than public schools, and enhance your relationship/influence with them. It’s a win, win.
In many areas, real estate taxes are so high that it is actually RENT. When you can own your property with only the price of a nice lunch as your monthly tax, that can be called ownership. When your taxes are twice as high as your car payments, that’s not ownership.
“How much of the LA tax burden do the Aliens shoulder?”
Try ZERO for starters! Most of them work “off the books” and don’t own homes. They are financial Remoras that have firmly attached themselves to the American Taxpayers a$$!
Hey, no complaints here!
I am an economic refugee from Kali that got here 2005. I tell any other CA expats that if they want vote dem, move to Austin. If you want to have actual proof that there are worse cities in the nation than LA, move to Houston. And if you vote conservative and want to have a great life, North Texas awaits you...
I refuse to use Khan but I do homeschool via a Classical Ed program with two campus days.
And they still have the high drop out rate and most of the ones who don’t still can’t read or do mate on a 10th grade level.
The company I work for is based out of Houston, I don’t live anywhere near there.
There’s a huge disconnect between HQ and my office.
It’s about 30-35% in my part of FL ... Cali or South TX could be much higher...
“The only downside here is the bugs.”
How about copperheads?
“54% to 46% isn’t resounding. It is just enough”
Actually it was resounding. It required two thirds (66%) to pass.
How about copperheads?
We’ve had a lot of “cow/rat” snakes in the 5 foot long range. But they are harmless. One even visited our living room last week. Scared the crap out of my wife. I had to come home from work to get it out. But they are really good at keeping the mice away.
I opened the hood of my truck to work on it one day and was peering over the right side shock absorber mount and was distracted by a movement. There, about six inches from my face, coiled up on the mount, was a huge cow snake. It didn’t do anything, though.
The good news about snakes is that they fear people. You gotta get in their face to get them to strike.
BTW, I had a blanket over a bench by our fire pit and when I lifted it I found four black widows. One was a juvenile. The hourglass was a bunch of dots.
If they live in a rented place, the rent covers the landlord's property taxes, so they indirectly pay property tax. As a landlord myself, I am always amused when tenants are in favor of increased property taxes. It is always passed on to the tenant.
Of course, the illegals usually live with many more people in a unit than average, so even accounting for the indirect property tax, they do not pay anything like the real cost of educating their children.
I lived in LA for 6 years right before moving to TX. I’ve worked extensively (too dammed extensively) in Houston over that last 14 years.
Just as big, just as crowded on the roads, just as dangerous, just as many chunks of “no go” areas, just as polluted, and just plain as nasty a city as LA is.
But...
La has really good weather. Our TX town is called Humidston for a reason.
LA has beaches. Houston has an hour drive (in good traffic, HA!) to Galveston, which on the north side seems to receive various deposits of gunk from refineries and boats all the time.
And in LA, you have a chance of getting your lunch served to you by a hot 19 y.o. blonde hoping to someday serve a meal to whomever replaced Weinstein as the casting couch king and be the next big actress. Good luck with that in Houston...
“As a landlord myself, I am always amused when tenants are in favor of increased property taxes. It is always passed on to the tenant.”
This is why we just sold a commercial office building we owned in the SF Bay Area and did a 1031 Exchange to get our money out of California. Because the RATs here are really going to try and sever rental property from the Proposition 13’s protections. We didn’t think our tenants would go for a doubling of the property taxes and their unwillingness to share the pending increases which will most likely double the tax.
Of course you’re right about passing taxes through to your tenants, but they are still part of your expense line, and people who rent from you have the option of moving out.
Where do you live? It is about $1400 yr. plus for a 1000 sq. ft. house & small lot where I live.
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