Jeremiah

Mariana Trench writes, quote,

Scott, I'm not going to do that, so please don't ban me.

I'm explaining how murderously angry it makes me feel.

So every other age group gets to have whatever goods and services are available at a market rate, but old people have to move to shitty apartments because we're worth so much less than young people?

I will take every legal means at my disposal to prevent you from doing this.

I will block you in the courts.

I will vote for evil totalitarian bastards if they support my property rights.

Scott writes, The policy that most people in James' camp are proposing is to repeal California's Proposition 13.

or other jurisdictions' local variants, which lock property taxes to the value of a house when it was bought, rather than the value now.

This benefits old people, who might have bought their houses 30 years ago when prices were much lower.

Repealing it and making everyone pay property taxes based on the current price of their house would incentivize, in some cases force, old people to move to cheaper houses.

If you treat the Proposition 13 regime as natural, then this is an attack on all people's rights.

But Proposition 13 was only passed in 1978, and plenty of states have no local equivalent.

If you treat the pre-13 state of affairs as natural, then 13 is an attack on young people's rights, and repealing it merely restores the proper fair state of the universe.

This is another of those marked versus unmarked things.

I agree that a lot of the talk around this sounds kind of ethnic cleansing adjacent, but nobody has the right to artificially depressed property taxes.

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Comments about culture Wooly AI writes, quote,

One, not mine, but it needs to be addressed, is housing.

There's no end of content online about boomers and housing, no need to reiterate.