[quote=briansd1]While this is critically important, I still don’t buy the argument that the two parties are the same.
There are plenty of quality of life issues that matter to people.
Let me give you an analogy. Let’s say that the husband is the family breadwinner. He’s unemployed and the family will eventually run out of money.
Of course, finding a job is critically important. But it’s still important to educate the kids, prepare healthy meals for them, clean the house and keep it tidy, socialize with friends, spend quality time with his wife, etc…
All of those quality of life issues matter to a family and it’s important to allocate money to strenghten the family for the future. So when the husband finds a good job again, the whole family is even stronger[/quote]
Well said.
The only “evidence” that Allan presents for the “both parties are the same” argument seems to be based on the idea that neither candidate is adequately addressing the national debt, and therefore nothing else matters.
It’s ridiculous. Although doom-and-gloomers like to claim the national debt will somehow destroy our country completely, there’s no solid argument, economic, historical, or otherwise to support this outcome.
The debt can, and probably will, cause the strength of US economy to decline relative to other nations. Although it’s not an ideal outcome, it’s hardly the end of the world. The fact is that we are already far from #1 on many measures of economic “success” already. The US population is not going to die en-masse if our GDP drops below China’s.
It could easily be argued that trophy properties never lost value as evidenced by top prices paid by the mega-rich around the world.
This reassessment is not the usual kind where a County clerk or supervisor made the decision. It rises to the level of top management and the County Assessor himself.
There was a huge corruption scandal in Los Angeles where building owners got assessment reduced in exchange for kickbacks.
I’m not implying that’s the case in San Diego with Romney’s house, but the Assessor could have stood firm and litigate this matter if necessary.
The value of Romney’s house is in the trophy oceanfront location. Romey also got the Coastal Commission to recommend approval of his new mansion which improves the value of the land.
Exactly right, Brian. It would be one thing if he tried to justify a reduction in the same way that everyone else has, and not get ANY special treatment. It’s the sense that he’s getting something that isn’t available to everyone else that has people riled up. And quite frankly, is avoiding taxes/reducing tax revenue the way he proposes to fix the problems with our public debt? Scary, to say the least.
