Los Angeles's NIMBY Problem is Causing Its Housing Problem

[malamute]

Originally Posted by freemkt

I have no property and little income - which tax should I prefer?

I guess you wouldn't really care high high either property taxes or income taxes are then. Maybe you don't like sales tax because they affect you if you buy things.

Like me for example -- I can afford to buy a new car but I won't because I really don't wish to pay the high taxes on new cars. A tax is like a penalty -- it's a penalty for home ownership, or it's to penalize those who work for a living, or a penalty for buying something.

[Des-Lab]

Originally Posted by freemkt

Perhaps you can answer a question I have had for decades:

Why is it perfectly okay to tax renters out of their homes while taxing homeowners out of their homes is political suicide in California?

Same reason we love to stick it to smokers: they are an easy target.

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

This country can't be fixed until baby boomers age out.

Originally Posted by EdwardA

The old folks vote. You'll need a big youth movement to get rid of Prop 13.

Originally Posted by malamute

And then California will collapse. It's all going to be illegals with sky high birth rates and no taxpayers to support their children for them. Who is going to pay for all those expensive schools and hospital care?

They have to keep Prop 13, if they raise the taxes, then there is nothing holding the taxpayers there. They can take their social security checks and stretch them much further elsewhere. The bigger homes as in 3 or 4 bedrooms and 1800 sq ft will fill with 4 or 5 families each with low incomes that cannot pay taxes.

Both of you are right. Tho it ain't Baby Boomers IMHO. Prop 13 was passed in what, 1980? Not many Boomers were in politics then because the oldest ones were about age 35 or so.

I'm in Bullhead City and many Cali people moved here to get away from what you 2 posters have said. The summers are bad with high electric bills but housing and land are CHEAP, even in the city.

Even Needles which IS in Cali; people are staying away from there tho it's very cheap AND it's an easy drive across the river to Bullhead through Mohave Valley.