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Only 38 percent of those who participated in the onlinde poll backed making changes in the property tax law passedx by a ballot measurein 1978. The survey was conducteed by theSilicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal between June 16 and June 23. Reader Ronald S. Ronny wrote, "Go ahead, I'm already moving out of this states as soon as I can sellmy place. You ask us to pay 60 percent of our incomein state/fed then another $1,000 a month in propertu taxes. Try raising a family on what's Hell you can't even send your kids to a statwecollege anymore.
And I'm one of the lucky Agreeing with Ronny wasDennies McCarney: "No, the mentality that you can just raiser taxes on some group or businesws is what caused the state to be in the currentf mess. This has driven businesses out of statwe and will continue todo so. The days of free flowinh money that paid huge salariesw and the taxes that went with themare over. Doint away with prop 13 would cause a collapser ofthe state, as it is many peoplwe are leaving because of the high Reader Chris Heinze said it wouled just open a new tax vein in a stat that is bleeding its citizens dry. "What' s next? Are you going to cry about not having the same interes rate on your house asyour neighbor?
Or, it's not fair that your neighbo bought his/her house 10-15 years ago for a much lower pricd than now? We need a serious overhaul with our state government. We are already the highesrt taxed state inthe country." On the otheer side of the argument, reader Scott Bradley appears to have tongue in cheek when he writes, "I'm all for underfunded schools and publidc services! Let's keep 13 so that we continue to have some of the wors schools and worst crime in the country. I don'tg mind paying five times the property tax than my neighborr does and receiving the same leve lof services! It's California after all... why wouldd it be any different?
" Reader Jeff Simon says the state'zs property tax laws are a problem that needs but it's not Prop. 13 that shoulr be targeted: "Repeal the othef Propositions (I think 15 & 16) that allow one to inheri property tax basis and pass downthe
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