[pmurT]

Why does everyone hate on prop13? It still allows taxes to go up, but only at the rate of inflation - it prevents normal people from being thrown out of their houses after 10 years due to tax adjustments

[TheCoelacanth]

If it only applied to natural persons' primary residences, you might have a point, but a lot of the benefit goes to commercial landlords holding vast swathes of real estate and paying practically no taxes on it. A better solution would be to allow people to defer property taxes on their primary residence until they die at which point it is taken out of their estate. That would still prevent people from being kicked out of their homes, but would also stop letting huge windfalls from property speculation go un-taxed.

[aianus]

It's a regressive tax that shifts the tax burden away from rich old retirees to poorer younger workers who had the misfortune of being born later.

[pmurT]

That is always how society works, those that existed before leverage the efforts of the young. 401k, social security, Medicare, etc

You'll benefit from this scenario at some point as well.

[aianus]

I don't find this situation comparable to those programs.

Boomers never paid any taxes on the extreme capital gains on their primary residences and I'm not holding my breath that prices will quintuple again in my lifetime. They got a huge something for nothing and the least they could do now is sell their houses at a huge profit and leave so workers with families can live closer to work.