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Transfer tax is totally fine.

But governments that try to get between families will end up on the loosing end. What inevitably happens is that the rich get loopholes and the middle class pays. At least in California everyone gets the same deal.



In practice, California's method entrenches wealth.


Does it? Nothing to do with that massive tech industry? Seattle is a socialist paradise I take it?

If you can get all the Google engineers to go on strike unless Mountain View agrees to build 50,000 homes, it will be done over night.


Honestly don't know what you're on about. Grandfathered-in property taxes definitely entrench wealth more than "everyone pays current rate" or "everyone pays past rate".

I'm not trying to explain housing prices here. I'm talking about the innate behaviour of Prop 13.




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