E.Kate
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Guy appears to be Caltech grad who got his masters from CSU Dominguez Hills in Comp Sci last year linkedin.com/in/cole-allen-…
Karol Markowicz@karol
NEWS: The attempted shooter at the White House Correspondent's Dinner is 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California and he is in custody.
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@WCreekerE @MrsCMFrancis But they give me migraines and sunburns.
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I don’t think anyone means our ancestors didn’t get sunburned, I think they just mean we shouldn’t worry about the sun like we’ve been conditioned to
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@MariajoseHdlg Yes I read that a few years ago. Now I’m the only weirdo of my friends who never wears sunglasses
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RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"
Trump: "Right"
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@camarawilliams Love the part where he says the property tax break won't apply to people newly moved to Florida, even if it's their primary residence. Genius, that.
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This should showcase just how well thought out this plan to eliminate property tax really is.
If you ever wondered how Florida was run into the ground by 30 years of Republican rule. This is clearest modern example. smh.
Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸@ReOpenChris
🚨Governor DeSantis says money from rich foreigners buying homes in Florida and AirBnBs will cover the costs of running local governments after homestead property tax goes away.
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🚨 Oregon Gov. Kotek just signed a law banning private equity from buying homes that have been for sale for under 90 days.
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@jonbrooks Yes because a vacant camp in Maine is not an equivalent good to a 3/2 in a major metro.
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There are 14.9 million vacant homes across the U.S.
Do we really have a housing shortage?
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@JoyceCarolOates Read that whole thread. She's making exactly that argument.
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But you (see posting below) are not the center of the universe. Other girls & women deserve control over their bodies. You are actually claiming that abortion shouldn’t be allowed even in a case of rape. Inhumane & illogical.
Helen Pluckrose@HPluckrose
I exist because just over a century ago, an Italian diplomat raped his 14-year-old maid & then dumped her in an East London Catholic home for unmarried mothers. She had no option of abortion. She was abused & blamed, gave birth & fled. Her son grew up there where he was abused 1/
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@Cal05000 @Tinybutfierce1 @atrupar Yeah, that was kind of my point. Its not a condition of his trachea (which might affect breathing).
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OMG -- the RFK Jr breathing noises during this hearing are absolutely horrifying
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@questionableway Just wait until the one exempting all 60+ year olds from property taxes is added to the mix.
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wow. both of these are really bad ideas. the second one in conjunction with prop 13 is going to bankrupt a lot of school districts. i bet both pass
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA
Two proposals qualified for California's November ballot: 1) $25 Billion bond for a middle-income homebuyer's assistance program. 2) Would require 2/3 instead of 50% of the vote to pass citizen-led local tax increase proposals moving forward.
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@joeyscleaning @HSlap0725086 @UziCryptoo Your assessed value (which is what your tax is based on) can only increase by 2% a year. So yeah, in 35 years your taxes are going to increase. Way less than the market value of that house has gone up though.
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@HSlap0725086 @UziCryptoo false, it goes up a certain percentage every year from the base tax rate. It is not the property tax rate from 1990 since it has gone up ~40%
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Texas doesn’t have state income tax.
What it DOES have is a property tax bill that resets every year based on whatever your home is “worth now.”
Mine went up $3,800 in a single year.
I didn’t get a raise. My house didn’t get bigger.
The state just decided it needed more money.
At least california is honest about robbing you.
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@AndrewYang Stop rolling the cost of a new phone or expecting a new phone with your plan and you'll pay less. I pay $25/line unlimited with Cricket.
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The average American spends $83 a month on their wireless bill. That’s $1k a year. The average European spends $35 a month on the same thing, or $420 a year. That difference adds up to $100 billion (!!!) a year extra spent by Americans on data.
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@Tinybutfierce1 @atrupar He has a problem with his vocal cords, yes. "RFK’s . . . spasmodic dysphonia which causes involuntary spasms in the larynx muscles, making them close too tightly during speech. It is not a throat or trachea issue but a brain disorder that affects vocal cord coordination
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@atrupar He literally has a documented medical problem with his trachea and windpipe and vocal cords. So you can take your ableism and shove it up your ass Rupar. You're disgusting. Do you make fun of people with Down Syndrome, cancer, or any other medical diagnosis? I'm sure you do.
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@CaptMarkKelly Sure, just what we need is more spending on old people. americanmind.org/salvo/what-is-…
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Seniors on fixed incomes can't absorb rising costs the way others can. In Arizona, 1 in 5 residents is over 65. Washington doesn't talk about that enough. My Cost of Living Emergency Act is designed to protect them and the retirement they earned.
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@Noahpinion Tell that to the Calif. boomers who want to vote themselves exempt from property taxes (because their Prop 13 benefits just aren't good enough).
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Property taxes are better than income taxes because property can't move
Uzi@UziCryptoo
6 years of living in Texas and I've come to the conclusion that the no state income tax thing is basically a scam. The property taxes are so high that they negate any savings. We are still paying as many taxes in Texas as we would in California. You save on gas I guess.
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@CaptMarkKelly No it's not becoming far too common: realtor.com/research/corpo…
"Investors with 100 or more purchases account for just 1.7% of single-family buyers over that time."
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It’s becoming far too common for corporate landlords to buy up single-family homes by the thousands, pricing out hardworking people from owning a home. We’ve got to crack down on these predatory practices and build more housing.
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This is where the political estimates of California losing 3-5 Congressional seats after the 2030 Census intersects with the personal and public policy. As has been the case for several years, the demographic leaving the state are families with school-aged children. Unions will continue to demand more public funds even as their enrollments plunge. Enrollment declines are self-perpetuating (a 5th grader who moves, becomes a 6th-12th grader who never enrolls). This trend shows no sign of turning around.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be. Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.
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@CartallicaX1 @edgefills In your scenario, the kids get a $1,000,000 assessment exemption under Prop 19. La Jolla might be one of the few places where their property taxes will be higher than their parents, because $1 mil. probably doesn't cover the rise in value their parents enjoyed.
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@edgefills Kids keep the parents’ low Prop 13 tax base if:
a.) The property is the parents’ primary residence, and
b.) The kids inherit and move in as their own primary residence within 1 year under Prop 19 rules.
It doesn't matter if the property is in a trust or not. 👈
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If you want a house west of the 5 in San Diego, you have to make your generational wealth elsewhere (13% top tax rate, capital gains taxed as ordinary income in CA, good luck compounding) and pray that a boomer doesn’t have/refuses to pass their property down to their kids.
Prop 13 persists when property is handed down to kids through trusts, and the capital gains basis “steps up” when the property is inherited. (Eg, if your parents bought a house at 600k, it’s worth 3 mill now, and you inherit it, your cap gains will only be taxed at the price you sell it less 3 mill.)
Everything in CA is set up for the people to never leave — I mean, why would you? — which is why it’s so grating that they demand open borders for everyone else. Would it be so much to stop treating people who live in less picturesque, perfectly temperate places as lesser life forms for wanting to preserve what they’ve come to love about their own area?
By 2030, almost all of these properties in north county will only be transferred by inheritance, which is why the prices keep going through the roof. These are all “forever homes”. Part of the reason these CA power brokers keep trying to direct class conflict in the rest of the US is bc everyone knows this territory is not defensible forever.
San Diego Josh ☀️🌴🚲@JoshInEncinitas
It’s all trusts and corps. Here’s a random area in La Jolla.
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@JoshInEncinitas @LinaWatson1 @grok Right. You said it was to avoid taxes. I said it’s to avoid probate which is very costly in CA.
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@WCreekerE @LinaWatson1 @grok If you’re unfamiliar with CA tax laws, just say so.
You don’t even have to have a trust to avoid a step up in the tax basis.
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It’s all trusts and corps. Here’s a random area in La Jolla.
Karen McGee@karenmotherof2
San Diego is beautiful, especially La Jolla, but I am confused on how anyone can afford to live here, especially in La Jolla
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