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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS!
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (850)8/18/2003 3:23:34 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) of 1641
 
I know all about the history of prop 13, why it was passed etc.

And it is not the fairness aspect of it that I am trying to solve. It is inherently unfair, a disgusting fleecing of the younger generation by the greedy older folks. But that is not my main issue.

My main issue is that, prop 13 has caused too much pain for SV, especially the companies here who are forced to rent from dead companies like Tandem who happened to be here 25 years ago. Tandem is the equivalent to my ex-landlord and this is not the sort of enterprise I want dictating policy to the businesses that exist today. Same for workers here, their needs should be paramount not my ex-landlord who has different goals and needs than today's residents. These deadwood residents from the past who are only living here due to prop 13 weigh the valley down. They vote against things which the tech workforce supports, like bond measures for the community colleges. I want them to move, and they would have moved in the free market tradition had it not been for this law.

Before you say somebody who lived here 25 years ago deserves to be here more than me, let me remind you that stanford and berkeley are the reasons for SV being where it is, and these institutions were built over hundreds of years. People that were here in 78 were just a bunch of whiners who couldn't deal with the economic times they lived in (inflation and low productivity). To solve the problem they passed a discriminatory law. I suspect the beginning of the end to prop 13, the news shows say if ca defaults it will be invalidated anyway.
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