[quote=FlyerInHi]CAR, I belong to a union and I know how contracts work.
Focus on the problem to be solved and stop bringing unrelated issues into the picture.
If a municipality in CA has financial problems, how does that warrant a state wide repeal of prop 13? That municipality has to manage its own affairs. It cannot control what voters in the whole state would do with regard to prop 13.
Crying foul about financial greed and parasites makes you sound unhinged.
I’m not blaming public employees nor am i scapegoating them. I’m saying that local governments need to mange their finances with the recources they currently have.
No, we are not subsidizing anyone’s profits by not taxing them. We just choose not to tax them. Simple as that. You are the one who lacks financial knowledge.[/quote]
Actually, FlyerInHi, practically speaking, no CA elected offical has ever tried to touch the “sacred cow” that is Prop 13. Why? Because THERE ARE SO MANY CA VOTERS BENEFITTING FROM IT, that it would be folly to try to bring forth a ballot initiative to either piecemeal-gut it or to repeal it in its entirety.
Since the damage is already long past “done” with the first initiative, CA residents can only hope that counties and municipalities can now deliver a level of service that they can accept with the limited resources available to them. There’s no turning back the clock. Things are as they are and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it.
WHY? Because voter-beneficiaries of Prop 13 outnumber or nearly outnumber the voters who would vote for its (entire or piecemeal) repeal. Aside from the required 66.67% vote necessary to pass or repeal a CA initiative, ask yourselves how this phenomenon came to pass and y’all wiil have your answer.
