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by entangledqubit 1405 days ago
... or you accept that the widow argument was a bogus special interest ploy to begin with and have people who genuinely need a prop 13 style exemption apply for an exception - rather than have it apply to everyone. From what I understand, Seattle does it this way.
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> ... or you accept that the widow argument was a bogus special interest ploy

It's not either/or. The old lady (old guys don't like to be kicked to the street either) argument was very real and causing a lot of pain for real regular people.

It's also true that the special corporate interest saw an opportunity and sneaked in to a law that never should've applied to them.

How is everyone going to get rich then?!?!