{"id":297,"date":"2020-10-01T20:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:37:36","slug":"ca-prop-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/ca-prop-15\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Prop 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet decided how I&#8217;m voting yet, but I learned some really interesting things about the history of Prop 13 from a news story from the California Report. The reason why it applied to commercial property as well as residential property is because the original author didn&#8217;t want to carve out new exceptions into the state constitution. More surprising was that businesses at the time <strong>opposed<\/strong> the proposition, and weren&#8217;t the ones asking for the taxes to be frozen. I cynically assumed it had been a big business tax grab hidden inside the plan to save the homes of retired Californians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since moving back to California I&#8217;ve been hearing about how prop 13 cripples local government funding in a variety of ways. So I&#8217;m definitely excited to do something about it. However, I&#8217;m hesitant with this reform because I worry it will also have unintended consequences. And I&#8217;m not talking about the consequences that are being argued right now, but consequences that we haven&#8217;t predicted yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t yet decided how I&#8217;m voting yet, but I learned some really interesting things about the history of Prop 13 from a news story from the California Report. The reason why it applied to commercial property as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/ca-prop-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}