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Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by hnburnsy »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #311
ourcat wrote: post #186

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You probably get far more for your money though. (Property/land-wise) I also remember reading stories years ago about CA/SV businesses that had offices up in Colorado as a back-up for when 'The Big One' hits.

Yes, ironically property taxes are much higher in Texas than California. And toll roads, etc... In short, the money has to come from somewhere — if not from income tax then it will be from somewhere else.

State/Median property tax rate/Median property tax

CA/0.74%/$2839

TX/1.8%/$2275

Source: http://www.tax-rates.org/california/property-tax

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by uoaei »

Darmody wrote: post #425
chillwaves wrote: post #386

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The Democratic party is a center-right party. If you are further to the right of them, you are far-right.

I'm going to reply with a comment I made an hour ago. "The far-left managed to create an "amazing" (and terrifying) perspective. If you're a leftist but not as leftist as them, you're a centrist, maybe even center-right which makes everybody on the right to be automatically far-right."

So then you are obligated, in the context of this conversation, to define "far-left."

I suspect you haven't elaborated on it because you recognize that your application of the term is easily disputed.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by ddoolin »

scop wrote: post #310
glitchc wrote: post #252

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This doesn't make any sense. Why is the quality of life poorer in California compared to Texas when California has: Better schools across all grades, better universities and better weather? Perhaps there are other factors? Do demographics play a role perchance? From Wikipedia: 1) According to 2018 US Census Bureau estimates, California's population was 59.5% White (36.6% Non-Hispanic White), 14.7% Asian, 13.8% Some O…

I live in San Francisco. I literally do not see black people. I largely do not see brown people outside of the service industry (i.e. they are "kept back in the kitchen"). I will largely interact with only white people and asian people on any given day. Where I will be moving to in TX has more diversity than where I live in San Francisco, which is something I am happy about. My children will be seeing more black & br…

This is not really a response to you particularly, but Southern California is much more _visibly_ diverse than SF and the Bay Area generally, I think. I am very happy with the diversity in my 4 years living here, particularly compared to the southern U.S. where I'm from.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by sterlind »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #305
enjoyyourlife wrote: post #153

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The key word there is "misdemeanors," if the crime is more serious it would be prosecuted

Here's some detail in the capture: https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1336119868182077445/pho...

Most crucially, resisting arrest is only dismissed if it's in conjunction with one of the misdemeanors listed above. So for instance, if a sex worker was arrested for loitering, and resisting arrest, both the loitering and the resisting arrest charge would be dismissed. But if she hit the cop, she'd still be charged, and if she resisted arrest after actual prostitution she'd be charged with both.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by chillwaves »

Darmody wrote: post #228
skrtskrt wrote: post #175

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> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico These are center-right sources by any reasonable standard

The far-left managed to create an "amazing" (and terrifying) perspective. If you're a leftist but not as leftist as them, you're a centrist, maybe even center-right which makes everybody on the right to be automatically far-right.

Such a worthless comment. Can you keep this kind of invective off HN?

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by uoaei »

ghostwriter wrote: post #391
chillwaves wrote: post #386

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The Democratic party is a center-right party. If you are further to the right of them, you are far-right.

Or, the Democratic party is a center-right party only if you are far-left

No, only if your Overton window is as wide as the set of expressed political opinions through history.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by pchristensen »

kelnos wrote: post #452
pchristensen wrote: post #350

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It distorts many aspects of governance. People don't move because there's a tax hike proportionate to how long you've lived there, so there's less turnover in housing, meaning less supply, meaning higher prices. It puts a hard, long term, effectively permanent cap on tax growth, so cities must plan for everything to continually get leaner. Cities make land use and zoning decisions based on uses that are net contribut…

How do we get rid of Prop 13? Supporting repeal is a political death sentence for anyone in local or state office. Homeowners of course love it (even when it has negative effects on them), and renters tend to be less politically active. What kind of campaign would it take to do this?

It's a constitutional amendment, so it would take another amendment to overturn it. It has created its own positive feedback cycle for support, because its beneficiaries are long-term residents, which means older older and wealthier people, who vote more. If a) your rent isn't going up, because you own and your taxes are fixed, and b) your kids are old enough to be out of school, and c) you live closer to work because you bought when the areas were less developed, then you're insulated from the 3 main problems that Prop 13 creates.

Those who would benefit from its repeal - renters, people who moved out, people who choose not to move to CA in the first place because of cost and governance, children, etc, either don't vote as consistently or can't vote in CA at all.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by uoaei »

jonathankoren wrote: post #407
Darmody wrote: post #208

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Far-right aka everybody who's not a democrat.

You really need to read a political science report. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/10/31/the-repu...

That article uses "populism" as a derogatory term.

The GOP does not employ "populism" they employ scare tactics.

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Post by selectodude »

jacobolus wrote: post #357
Darmody wrote: post #208

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Far-right aka everybody who's not a democrat.

The GOP put itself out of power in CA by pursuing a series of explicitly racist policies in a white-plurality state, and then later settling on total political obstruction as its backup plan (in the short term this was effective at preventing the state government from addressing a wide range of serious problems). My former GOP state rep in SoCal used to send out mailers proudly proclaiming that he had voted ‘no’ on 1…

It's kind of funny how hard the CAGOP pushed for independent redistricting thinking that the Dems were gerrymandering them out of existence. After the independent redistricting happened they lost the few seats they had and now essentially cease to exist.

Re: Elon Musk moves to Texas

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Post by [deleted] »

threeseed wrote: post #466
beambot wrote: post #235

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You mean abatements & subsidies required to push "clean" vehicle policies that are among the most aggressive in the world? Without Tesla & CA's policies, auto electrification would be at least a decade behind what it is today... Being at the forefront of environmental policy has real costs.

Paris climate targets will have done far more to push EV forward than Tesla/CA. Most governments e.g EU, UK, China all looking to curtail/ban ICE cars within the next few decades. And of course this has resulted in car manufacturers rapidly pushing EV cars.

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