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Old 04-02-2010, 02:51 PM
 
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Property tax percentage maybe low but the values here are much higher than the norm.
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Old 04-02-2010, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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Property taxes are low? 1%+ not including mello roos? Colorado Springs was around 0.7% (and people complained and school bond measures failed). Huntsville is around 0.58% (and people complain and raising taxes or bonds or Tax Increment Financing are like pulling teeth).
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Old 04-02-2010, 05:12 PM
 
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Property taxes are low? 1%+ not including mello roos? Colorado Springs was around 0.7% (and people complained and school bond measures failed). Huntsville is around 0.58% (and people complain and raising taxes or bonds or Tax Increment Financing are like pulling teeth).
In San Antonio Texas the property tax rate is over 3%. For a $200,000 house in a good neighborhood you're paying more than $6,000.
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Old 04-02-2010, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Madison, WI
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In San Antonio Texas the property tax rate is over 3%. For a $200,000 house in a good neighborhood you're paying more than $6,000.
That's crazy. I wonder how much it would cost to rent a house worth $200k in San Antonio. Probably not much more than $6000/year.
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Old 04-02-2010, 06:43 PM
 
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In San Antonio Texas the property tax rate is over 3%. For a $200,000 house in a good neighborhood you're paying more than $6,000.
In California, that house would cost $600k and you'd owe $7000/yr in taxes.
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Old 04-02-2010, 11:07 PM
 
Location: El Dorado Hills, CA
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Good blog, glad to see someone is keeping track of this stuff. Don't expect our state to stop just trying to patch the sinking raft, robbing Peter to pay Paul and kicking the can down the road.
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Old 04-03-2010, 03:02 AM
 
Location: On the "Left Coast", somewhere in "the Land of Fruits & Nuts"
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Yes we have a lot of wealthy people and guess what they are already paying their fair share of taxes. It is not the amount that is coming in it is the amount that is being spent. You could double the amount coming in and those in Sacramento will find a way to spend it and find a creative way to spend even more.

We need to completly clean house in Sacramento and get rid of those that spend more than we take in.
I wouldn't disagree with the "cleaning house" part. But the fact of the matter is that most of the "spending more than we take in" is mandated by all the ballot issues Californians have repeatedly voted for, without anticipating how to pay for them! Not to mention all their competing (and powerful) constituencies (i.e. teachers associations, highway patrol, prison guard unions, etc.), plus the exotic re-districting schemes that encourage polarization and partyline ideology over compromise.
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Old 04-03-2010, 04:16 AM
 
Location: Yucaipa, California
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I wouldn't disagree with the "cleaning house" part. But the fact of the matter is that most of the "spending more than we take in" is mandated by all the ballot issues Californians have repeatedly voted for, without anticipating how to pay for them! Not to mention all their competing (and powerful) constituencies (i.e. teachers associations, highway patrol, prison guard unions, etc.), plus the exotic re-districting schemes that encourage polarization and partyline ideology over compromise.
The public unions do own the legislature. I dont see anything changing anytime soon except dmv fees going up again. The legislature is terrified of the unions.
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Old 04-03-2010, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Living on the Coast in Oxnard CA
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The legislature is beholden to the union. They get into office because of them. One of the reasons to get rid of them all and vote only those that are not influenced by the State Employee Unions, or anyother Unions.
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Old 04-03-2010, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Eureka CA
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Quit blaming the unions. Everyone in this state wants services,no one wants to pay.
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