Comments on: What happend to all that property tax revenue places like CA has seen explode over the last decade?

By: John S

John S — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:06:59 +0000

Actually, due to Proposition 13, rapidly increasing property values alone do NOT result in rapidly increasing property taxes. It is only when increased values are coupled with a high number of sales that any significant increase in revenue is seen. Moreover, most property taxes go to local government (cities and counties) not the state.
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By: ducky

ducky — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:50:59 +0000

we removed the Governor (that's how we ended up with Arnold)
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By: devilishblueyes

devilishblueyes — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:39:59 +0000

That’s regime for you. If you have it, waste it. They tell us to save, yet they never do it themselves.

The thing is they don’t want to cut programs and they want to add new programs. If you want to add new programs you are going to have to find ancient programs to cut to pay for the new programs.

And then when they do "lower" taxes they normally do what one of my friends in politics calls the "shift and bar". Indiana did that recently. The price of property taxes were getting so outrageous that many people were losing their homes because the state did away with the inventory tax to entice more companies to come to the state. Spending didn’t go down and the state spending costs got passed down to the local county governments who normally pay for stuff through property tax. So the taking away the inventory tax made property tax go up. To alieviate property tax they raised the sales tax by 1%. They made it grow like they were spending less money when really by increasing the sales tax 1% they boost state tax income by in this area 4 fold. So basically they are collecting even more taxes but make it look like they are collecting less by shifting where the tax money is full from and shafting the voters.

I reckon every state must have everyplace in their constitution that x percent is place back torwards savings and emergency funds and can’t be used except in the case of a natural disaster or statewide emergency. And that they must keep a balanced budget.
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By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:01:59 +0000

California, like Washington in the 80′s, washed-out the ever increasing tax revenues even quicker than they came in. Their debt in fact rose and now there is no money..
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By: Lubri

Lubri — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:27:59 +0000

Your money is going to fund illegal aliens. Do they ever even say, "Thank you?"
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