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Cops, firefighters, EMTs, teachers, highway maintenance workers should never get a raise? New patrol cars, fire trucks, snow plows should never be bought? Emergency services should always work with 1950s technology? Schools should never be wired? The cost of services goes up of necessity. One can choose to live in an impoverished county like some of those in the rural south where there is no tax base but formany of us that's not living.
And, yeah, I've been fortunate but in 1972 $20k a year was big money. I do not know anybody who was working then and is still working today who is not earning a significant multiple of that. I am certain that you were not getting by at 45 on the same income you had at 23.
I have no disrespect for you at all, I just disagree on your idea about real estate taxes.
Prop 13 is essentially California's version of "rent control."
The problem is, most Californians can't keep up with the cost of California's infrastructure.