By Perfect Blue Go To PostWhy do we elect the worst people
By Hentai Samurai Go To Postwho's gonna buy the trump sneakers?
tell us ur secrets american friends
By Pedja Go To PostI hear Sudden Death Syndrome is a common side effect of being poisoned and tortured
Maybe one of those muslim cockroaches he banged on about got him?
By Patriotism Go To PostMaybe one of those muslim cockroaches he banged on about got him?
By FortuneFaded Go To PostNobody’s perfect m8Somebody beat me to the joke but was actually serious
Would hope they learn from Brexit's mistake and require the leave campaign to have a concrete plan on how to deal with the issues what will/can arrive. But they won't.
By Laboured Go To PostNo we still let Americans in from time to time.
You're stopping the wrong boats.
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Boomers did A LOT to protect their home value, keep their taxes low, and fuck over the future generation.
This... I'm not saying it fits
So, one of the things I find fucked up is that escalating values of properties fucks over those living on them. One of the things I would like to see is that people get grandfathered in and don't get fucked by new property valuations that increase taxes on existing residents, my idea that is that it should only impact a new buyer absent some other intervening act (such as, substantively modifying the existing dwelling in a way to be determined, but most notably is tearing down and rebuilding the entire thing). Everything else could be pegged to inflation.
This would seem to me to address some ills to a degree, not that it's perfect. It could help alleviate gentrification, at least for owners so a property value increase wouldn't force you to sell, but some other remedy would still need to be found for those renting. In the same vein, municipalities wouldn't need to constantly rework their tax rates based on recent valuations and could use expected increases based on inflation + expected rate of sales for their budgets.
So this person with a 4 million dollar property (+900%) might be stretching that idea to a limit, but in 28 years of ownership, perhaps that's an exception worth living with if it also protects those with less advantaged resources.
So, one of the things I find fucked up is that escalating values of properties fucks over those living on them. One of the things I would like to see is that people get grandfathered in and don't get fucked by new property valuations that increase taxes on existing residents, my idea that is that it should only impact a new buyer absent some other intervening act (such as, substantively modifying the existing dwelling in a way to be determined, but most notably is tearing down and rebuilding the entire thing). Everything else could be pegged to inflation.
This would seem to me to address some ills to a degree, not that it's perfect. It could help alleviate gentrification, at least for owners so a property value increase wouldn't force you to sell, but some other remedy would still need to be found for those renting. In the same vein, municipalities wouldn't need to constantly rework their tax rates based on recent valuations and could use expected increases based on inflation + expected rate of sales for their budgets.
So this person with a 4 million dollar property (+900%) might be stretching that idea to a limit, but in 28 years of ownership, perhaps that's an exception worth living with if it also protects those with less advantaged resources.
Prop 13s been around for decades. It behaves exactly as you've described.
But it's insulated a lot of "right place, right time" and "generationally wealthy" money while making newer generations get reassessed at the newer home value.
The problem isn't the $4m home, it's the fact that a starter home in places like Bay Area are $1.5m and the only people benefitting are those that bought twenty years ago.
And mind you, they weren't even paying the top end of the assessment for majority of the time -- they paid MUCH less when they got their foot in the door.
But it's insulated a lot of "right place, right time" and "generationally wealthy" money while making newer generations get reassessed at the newer home value.
The problem isn't the $4m home, it's the fact that a starter home in places like Bay Area are $1.5m and the only people benefitting are those that bought twenty years ago.
And mind you, they weren't even paying the top end of the assessment for majority of the time -- they paid MUCH less when they got their foot in the door.
Okay, so yeah, I'm thinking a lot about gentrification in the general sense and how to partially alleviate it. What they might already do in parts unknown is whatever. California is flyover country, right?
My idea has been that new buyers would buy into the full value of the property. 100% day one, they know what they're buying. Residents -- actual residents -- that have lived there for years would not face the burden of seeing their property valued multiple times higher when they definitely bought in at far lower values with far lower income. Perhaps in addition to that, there's means testing? I kind of basically abhor that, since it often just makes things more complicated than they need to be for no real benefit, basically because the aim is so low it hits the middle class just to spite the rich who absolutely wouldn't give a fuck, that sort of thing.
Anyway, I just don't want to see taxes push anyone out of a home, not that I want to see anyone insulated when they can afford it.
My idea has been that new buyers would buy into the full value of the property. 100% day one, they know what they're buying. Residents -- actual residents -- that have lived there for years would not face the burden of seeing their property valued multiple times higher when they definitely bought in at far lower values with far lower income. Perhaps in addition to that, there's means testing? I kind of basically abhor that, since it often just makes things more complicated than they need to be for no real benefit, basically because the aim is so low it hits the middle class just to spite the rich who absolutely wouldn't give a fuck, that sort of thing.
Anyway, I just don't want to see taxes push anyone out of a home, not that I want to see anyone insulated when they can afford it.
The irony is that this home wouldn't be valued / sold at $4m if gentrification was more common by allowing more apartments / mass residential / more affordable housing to be built. The scarcity is part of the problem and why Prop 13 is a double edged sword.
Repeal
1)Fender (can't quit you, buddy)
2) Fender's HOA
3) Prop 13
4)California (we need the electoral votes)
Start fresh. Problem solved.
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2) Fender's HOA
3) Prop 13
4)
Start fresh. Problem solved.
Another story for the Britain as failed state/United Ireland inevitability: Irish government funding UK infrastructure projects.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostThey are usually not that explicit. What happened to falling out of windows?What happened to food poisoning??
By DY_nasty Go To PostDamn that sucks. Gotta defect harder than that I guessGotta not hand out your new address to your ex
"What we know is that he invited his ex-spouse to join him and then he was found shot to death."
This wall-to-wall daily coverage of Navalny's death on NYT is quite... uh, do better. That dude was a racist and not a friend of the West.
The important thing is that he'd still be alive if he didn't go back to Russia to become a martyr Trump was president.
WHY ARE YOU NOT FOCUSING ON THE IMPORTANT THING IN THIS STORY: TRUMP!
WHY ARE YOU NOT FOCUSING ON THE IMPORTANT THING IN THIS STORY: TRUMP!
By Lunatic Go To PostNever knew reilo was a Putin supprterThey're both cunts. Navalny was no friend of human rights or decency. Treating him as a martyr and a West vs East is fucking dumb.
By reilo Go To PostThey're both cunts. Navalny was no friend of human rights or decency. Treating him as a martyr and a West vs East is fucking dumb.
Fr been something watching historically oppressed minorities fall over themselves to be outraged by this guy's death
By reilo Go To PostThis wall-to-wall daily coverage of Navalny's death on NYT is quite… uh, do better. That dude was a racist and not a friend of the West.Sounds like a quality that would make him a friend of the west