Poll: Few back changing California property tax limits - Business First of Columbus:

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Only 38 percent of those who participatedc in the online poll backed making changew in the property tax law passed by a ballo measurein 1978. The survey was conductedr by theSilicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal between June 16 and June 23. Readerd Ronald S. Ronny wrote, "Go ahead, I'm alreaduy moving out of this state as soon as I can sell my You ask us to pay 60 percentt of our incomein state/fed taxes, then another $1,00p0 a month in property Try raising a family on what's left. Hell you can'r even send your kids to a statecollegd anymore. And I'm one of the luckyt ones.
" Agreeing with Ronny was Dennis McCarney: the mentality that you can just raisre taxes on some group or business is what causeds the state to be in thecurrenf mess. This has driven businesses out of state and will continue todo so. The days of free flowingt money that paid huge salaries and the taxexs that went with them are Doing away with prop 13 would cause a collapse ofthe state, as it is many peoplse are leaving because of the high Reader Chris Heinze said it would just open a new tax vein in a statre that is bleeding its citizens dry. "What's next? Are you goingy to cry about not having the same interest rate on your houses asyour neighbor?
Or, it'a not fair that your neighborr bought his/her house 10-15 years ago for a much lowe r price than now? We need a serious overhaul with our stat e government. We are alreadty the highest taxed state inthe country." On the othetr side of the argument, reader Scoty Bradley appears to have tongue in cheem when he writes, "I'm all for underfunded schools and public services Let's keep Prop. 13 so that we continuw to have some of the worst schools and worsr crime inthe country. I don't mind payingt five times the property tax than my neighbor does and receiving the same levelof services! It'ds California after all...
why would it be any Reader Jeff Simon saysthe state's propertg tax laws are a problem that needs but it's not 13 that should be targeted: "Repeal the othefr Propositions (I think 15 16) that allow one to inherit property tax basis and pass down the