Budget ills spark talk of tweaking Prop. 13

Mercury News ^ | 6/7/03 | Patrick May

[NormsRevenge]

On June 6, 1978, Californians used a ballot-box megaphone to issue this warning to elected officials: Don't move, keep your hands up, back away from our pocketbooks.

Proposition 13 soared to victory. The tax revolt capped property taxes that seemed to be rising out of control. Millions of voters who were worried about losing their homes went home happy.

[NormsRevenge]

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[Mister Baredog]

But in Sacramento, more than 10 proposals would lessen the super-majority requirement or affect Proposition 13 in other ways

They are desperate to undo this law. The greedy pig legislators need to find more sources of money to finance their ever expanding "needs"(I said their needs). The day they change this law will spell "curtains" for Kalifornia. My house will go on the market immediately. If I'm lucky it will be the poor folks I sell it to that will have to pay for this boondoggle called our state government, what a joke. By then I'll be living elsewhere.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Touching Prop 13 should burn the Democrats!

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[Go Gordon]

The day they change this law will spell "curtains" for Kalifornia. My house will go on the market immediately.

Have you considered moving BEFORE it passes. It seems like if you wait until it passes, the value of your home will go through the floor. Why not get out now why the going is good?

[Mister Baredog]

Have you considered moving BEFORE it passes. It seems like if you wait until it passes, the value of your home will go through the floor. Why not get out now why the going is good?

This is LA LA Land, I only need one unsuspecting buyer. There will be many who don't realize what it would really mean. I figure there would be some time before all the reappraising etc. could go into effect. That is the time I would use to make my "escape".LOL!

[FITZ]

I live in Texas in an area where property taxes are outrageous. From what I've been told you guys in California actually have it very nice with low property taxes on your homes. An average house here has property taxes of at least $3000 to $4000 a year, some people are paying $6000 to $7000 a year ---but those are bigger houses.

[Go Gordon]

This is LA LA Land, I only need one unsuspecting buyer.

Good to hear you have a plan. One request: Make sure its a RAT....LOL

[NormsRevenge]

States that have no income tax , I suspect ,pay higher property tax rates. It's a Trade-off, I guess. Except in CA, where everything is high and we have more taxes err fees then you can shake a stick at.

[Mister Baredog]

live in Texas in an area where property taxes are outrageous. From what I've been told you guys in California actually have it very nice with low property taxes on your homes. An average house here has property taxes of at least $3000 to $4000 a year, some people are paying $6000 to $7000 a year ---but those are bigger houses.

Home prices are VERY high in Kalifornia. I bought a 3 bedroom in 1987 and I pay $4000/yr now in property taxes. If I sell the next owner will pay much more. It about 1.25% of the sales price of the home. My next door neighbor pays $7500, they bought only a couple of years ago. These are not mansions, I'm talking decent homes built in the 1940's. The average price on a starter home in LA now is almost $300,000, and I'm talking "fixer upper".

[FITZ]

If you sell your house, who can afford to buy it? I imagine quite soon, zoning laws in many areas will need to change so that homes could be divided up into apartments or multi-family dwellings. Or else get rid of all the farm land that's left and build cheap apartments on the land. How many people a day move into California from Mexico? They'll need places to live but homes like yours would be out-of-reach the way it is now.

[Penner]

``The idea of taxes and fees is so ideologically polarizing,'' Simitian said, ``that it's tough for even my moderate Republican colleagues to come on board. But if we can't make this happen in the Legislature, we'll start talking about whether there's support for a ballot initiative.''


...as he takes another bong hit.

[goldstategop]

I'm in favor of amending Prop. 13 to strip away tax protection for big business if it continues to support tax increases. In other words, if the Silicon Valley liberal billionares want to trash the two-thirds vote protection like they did on school bonds, we need to hit em hard where it hurts - in their pocketbooks.