[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=outtamojo][quote=FlyerInHi]If those Republicans in TX, AK, Ok… are so wealthy, then WTF are they angry about? Go spend some of that money and enjoy.[/quote]
Republicans I know are most angry when they see someone receiving something “undeserved” or they didn’t “work” for.[/quote]
Ok, I can accept that. But do their children and relatives deserve anything that they didn’t “work” for? And, also, if we can create growth and wealth for our citizens, then why not give them a hand so we can all be better off? . . . [/quote]CA gives the biggest and most widespread “welfare benefit” of any state in the union in the form of Props 13, 58 and 193. NONE of its residents who have most benefited from these sections did anything at all to “deserve” this special treatment except hold real property bought long ago (for very little money) or was born into a family that did and “inherited” said real property.
How is the 66-year old only child whose “inherited” home has been in gross disrepair since a few months after he “inherited” it (replete with constant trash and junk all over the property) more deserving than his neighbors who have pride of ownership? Is it fair that he has a $400 annual property tax bill versus my $4000+ annual tax bill? He’s been leeching off mom and dad (and then just dad after mom passed) his entire life and is nothing but a “loser.”
If his taxes were set from a “market-rate assessment” making them now ~$4000 (as mine are), his property would have already been auctioned off several years ago for back taxes and penalties and the new owner would have come in and cleaned it up. This “loser homeowner” has a nice monthly disability pension for life but just blows his money, buying two more vehicles (he has four now) in the past two years. These sections still on CA’s books today have the effect of “loser-heirs” deciding to attempt to keep a deceased parent’s property as a principal residence when they have no business whatsoever in being a “homeowner” with all that goes along with that.
No, he (and millions more Californians) don’t deserve this gubment largesse and of course, I’m angry about it! It’s grossly inequitable and unjust enrichment to mostly residents who have done absolutely nothing with their lives but there is nothing that will be done about this in my lifetime. My only recourse is to focus on “getting mine,” however small that may be (Prop 60 or 90) :=0
