{"id":9034,"date":"2009-06-28T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2009-06-28T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T03:43:06","slug":"repeal-proposition-13-or-file-chapter-13-to-be-california-leftist-politicians-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9034\/repeal-proposition-13-or-file-chapter-13-to-be-california-leftist-politicians-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"“Repeal Proposition 13 Or File Chapter 13 !” To Be California Leftist Politicians’ Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been critical of California’s Proposition 13 because of its progressive nature. It penalizes immigrants and younger families to favor older, wealthier nativists.\u00a0 Howard Jarvis’ intent was to stop the California’s Legislature from its runaway spending; the Legislature did no such thing. In fact, the California Legislature has increased spending, over the past 31 years,\u00a0 in spite of the intended purpose of Proposition 13.<\/p>\n

As much as I think Proposition 13 is bad public policy, I’m glad it’s on the books. The inevitable bankruptcy of California<\/a> will cause its citizenry to take a hard look at the cost of the Great Social Experiment<\/a> its Legislature pursued. Jeff Brown and Sean Purcell are subject to my cautionary warnings that the wealth-eating zombies in Sacramento<\/a> won’t stand for their citizens’ impudence; I believed that one of those ghouls would try to repeal Proposition 13, citing its’ progressive nature.\u00a0 I was wrong; they hired a henchman.<\/p>\n

Meet San Francisco Recorder-Assessor Phil Ting; he wants to change Proposition 13. Phil Ting is spinning his attack on Proposition 13 as corporate welfare. Ting claims that Proposition 13 unfairly benefits commercial property owners at the expense of residential property owners<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Paradoxical to the law’s initial intent, the commercial property loopholes in Proposition 13 have actually shifted the tax burden<\/span> away from corporations and onto the backs of residential property owners<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, look at San Francisco<\/span>,<\/span> where I currently serve as assessor- recorder. Thirty years ago, commercial property owners<\/span> contributed 59 percent of property tax<\/span> revenues and residential property owners<\/span> contributed 41 percent. Today, we see a virtual flip: commercial property owners<\/span> contributed just 43 percent of property taxes<\/span> in 2008, while residential property owners<\/span> contributed 57 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds reasonable,\u00a0 right?\u00a0 Bear in mind that Ting called the Catholic Church a tax deadbeat for reapportioning its parish properties to local control<\/a>, a measure all California Catholic Dioceses are enacting.\u00a0 This politically-motivated measure was payback for the Church’s involvement in a ballot initiative this past November.\u00a0 Ting’s the perfect hired gunslinger for the California Left.<\/p>\n

Liberal, spend and try-to-tax legislators are trying desperately to figure out how to circumvent Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been critical of California’s Proposition 13 because of its progressive nature. It penalizes immigrants and younger families to favor older, wealthier nativists.\u00a0 Howard Jarvis’ intent was to stop the California’s Legislature from its runaway spending; the Legislature did no such thing. In fact, the California Legislature has increased spending, over the past 31 years,\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6225,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6225\/learning-to-appreciate-the-arts\/","url_meta":{"origin":9034,"position":0},"title":"Learning to Appreciate the Arts","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"December 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Not everyone appreciates the entertainment value of watching the body politic.\u00a0 But I do.\u00a0 I stand hands on hips, amazed by the intricate movements each player contributes to their tap dance around the truth.\u00a0 I listen to their spin, enthralled by the rhythm and stunned by their ability to stand\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10716,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10716\/whats-wrong-with-california-nothing-anyone-left-in-the-state-has-the-fortitude-to-fix-whats-the-golden-states-future-ask-detroit\/","url_meta":{"origin":9034,"position":1},"title":"What’s wrong with California? 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