[rcpt]

Yes but there are places in the world where the house you buy when you're 30 isn't the one with your deathbed.

Ideally living people will move out and make room for the next generation when they no longer have use for 4 bedrooms in a good school district close to jobs.

[gkop]

Are you satisfied with the status quo in California, or do you think we can do better?

[rcpt]

Obviously we can do better. And the best way to go about it is to end Prop 13 in it's entirety immediately.

[gkop]

Great. So to get that rolling, split roll obviously was a great first step, that unfortunately failed. But we should try again.

Beyond split roll, do you have ideas to 1) protect people that would be harmed by an immediate rollback of 13 and 2) build the political coalition to get it done?

[rcpt]

1) these people hit a huge jackpot I don't care to "protect" them at all. We already have the CA tax postponment program for low income seniors anyway.

2) no. As long as California is a direct democracy the law will stay. Even Prop 15 failed so any chance of reform through the existing process is doomed. Justice Stevens echos this point here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1912.ZD.html I suppose that maybe with billions of lobbying and ad spend we could Prop 22 a repeal through but even then I doubt it.

The only way I see it happening is if the courts strike it down as unconstitutional. Equal protection is applied stronger on issues of race and Nordlinger v Hahn didn't address that. We now can see real data that Prop 13 systemically hurts minorities and I believe another challenge is warranted.

Edit: actually should have talked about "disparate impact" instead in that last part.

[rcpt]

Reference https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/...

[gkop]

Thank you for the valuable info!