Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2007/02

From: OhSuzan419@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Band Directors-Help needed
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:43:47 -0500


In a message dated 2/21/2007 8:51:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ghuba@-----.com writes:
<<if the California voters had not been stupid enough to be pigs at a
trough and pass the infamous Proposition 13 in the 1970s (limiting property
tax to a percentage of what you had paid no matter how long ago that was>>

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Having been one of those living in California and privileged to vote FOR
Prop 13, I find this characterization to be incomprehensible and incredibly
mean-spirited.

I gained nothing at all from the passage of that proposition -- the house we
had just bought was assessed at the price we had just paid for it. The
people who gained were little old ladies like our neighbor, who was being forced
by confiscatory taxes out of the home that she had owned since 1926. By 1976,
her ANNUAL tax bill was more than she had paid for the house in the first
place.

Retiring on a "fixed income" is not merely theoretical, nor limited only to
those who have done poor estate planning. Our neighbor was a retired
professional who ate cat food, burned trash in her fireplace for heat, and
discontinued her gas and electric service in an attempt to pay her taxes and continue
living in her home on a fixed income.

I pray, sir, that you don't have the misfortune of outliving your pension.

Susan Kundert

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