Nutty California

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[swchandler]

techno900, your flight of fantasy from a trashy right wing opinion piece is laughable. Please pardon us for not grabbing our pitchforks and joining your parade.

After tomorrow's election here in California, I thinking that you will need to console your brother in his misery. After 22 million dollars wasted, Republicans suffer another humiliation in the Golden State.

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[isobars]

They don't have to concede anything. (e.g., The sun comes up in the east whether they admit it or not.)

First, they're like frogs tossed in the kettle when the water was a nice, comfortable 72 degrees. Now that it's boiling, they don't know the difference. They actually think that Newsome and the rest of the CA Dems are normal, and that the rest of the country lives under the same insanity. (Hint: We do NOT. Personal freedoms, including the right to eat a GD sammich in peace or travel freely between states, are God-given and constitutionally acknowledged, not privileges we must earn, buy, or get elected to.) "Progressive", my ass. Most of them don't even know they live in an ever-tightening feudal system that harks back to the Middle Ages.

Second, they have no clue what I'm talking about because they don't watch any unbiased or conservative news. They don't see the 212 degree thermometer reading because they're already well-done, and they can't comprehend the giant leap (but dismaying erosion) in mankind's individual and collective independence east of their eastern border. They pay an enormous price for their nice weather; I'd rather buy a coat and live more freely. (At least I recognize, admit, and so far tolerate my governor's insanity, but not under any delusions; his lunacy is filtered somewhat by more rational thinkers at my end of the state.)

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[boggsman1]

Speaking of nutty....I know no rethug will agree, but how about a system where a sitting Governor can be removed by a simple majority, and then replaced by someone who gets 25% of the vote? How's that for democracy?

Pre-emptive losing whining...get used to it..
https://www.thewrap.com/scarborough-msnbc-larry-elder/

[mac]

Double down with ignorance and isobars will chime in. Let me make it simple for you Techno. I already know that xenophobia and paranoia drive your posts, not facts and analysis.

Over the past 8 years, California’s booming economy has added about 385,000 jobs per year. Housing starts have dropped to 100,000 units per year. Some have estimated that the housing deficit is 2 million units. Those are the big dials on the explosion of housing prices, and similar patterns are playing out in other cities like Seattle.

Your ignorance and disinterest in history rivals buggy whip’s. California has had a Housing Authority and Accountability Act since 1982, and a state appeal court just overruled San Mateo’s denial of an apartment building because they did not have defensible reasons.

I know that young people in California are furious that housing prices have made it impossible to live near where they work, and blame it on old people clinging to the house they bought decades ago. Folks cling to those houses because Proposition 13 means that they are subsidized in their taxes—no matter how wealthy they are. That problem, and resentment, is what is driving the politics.

Re-assessing houses to get more taxes is something you made up, or one of your loony sites planted in your impressionable mind. I deal with public infrastructure and funding, and any city manager worth their salt knows the age cohort of their citizenry, and the rate at which turnover and reassessment is happening.

But you have ignored the structural problems created by the real estate industry and their stooge, your god, Donald Trump. I’ll name the biggies.

1. As soon as a unit turns over, Proposition 13 holds down the assessment until it is sold, no matter the cost to serve. The problem starts again.

2. “Innovations” like AirBNB take units out of the rental stock, driving up costs. There are an estimated 2000 such units in Berkeley, more than enough to house the homeless population.

3. The tax structure for real estate makes it possible to hold vacant rental property for speculation, or buy a unit and let your kid live in it while going to college, and thus avoid lowering prices until the unit is rented.

Dude, you’ve been brainwashed. It didn’t take much soap.

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