[quote=permabear][quote=CA renter]IMHO, there is nothing wrong with Prop 13. Older residents should not have to pay the expenses for the infrastructure burdens caused by new residents.[/quote]Why not? This is society in a nutshell. Imagine if people could just decide to lock in their income taxes at some arbitrary level. Subsequent programs – right or wrong – would suffer funding problems. If the programs are wrong, then residents should speak up and object, and/or vote out their representation. Right now, Prop 13 enables ambivalence – an overwhelming problem in our country as a whole.[/quote]
permabear, I’m not among the lucky “Prop 13 protected classes,” but plenty of my neighbors are. If I’m looking at two tall brown poles across the street from me and one tall brown pole adjacent to the back of my property, with lines coming to and fro and to my house but my fellow Pigg is located in a CFD where several million dollars in MR bonds was used to bury the lines around his or her small subdivision, then why should I or any of my neighbors (protected by Prop 13) subsidize the buried-cable Pigg?? He/she has the fancy thoroughfare-median landscaping and state-of-the-art fire station decorated in archways over the garage doors with Tuscan touches and I have the giant 1966 square hangar down the street. We’re not paying MR and my fellow “modern Pigg” is. My kid’s school doesn’t have a heated indoor pool, carpeting, long lockers or separate performing arts theatre (ex: Otay Ranch or Olympian). What’s fair is fair.
Call this ambivalence if you wish, permabear, but I think I’ve said it before a few times, you pay for exactly what you get in this life.
