Reply #10: Not everyone who owns a business is an evil corporation. [View All]

There are plenty of small business people and people who own small business properties. We (Florida) recently had tax rollback in Florida because it was killing them. They are still fighting for a "present use" evaluation system so that Jo-Jo's bakery isn't paying taxes on her business as if it were a ten story condominium. We're talking about people whose taxes went from $2400 per year to $8,000 - $12,000 per year.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_13A

Prop 13 was written so that corporations did not have to pay their fair share of the maintenance of the infrastructure to their real estate.

I just read it, and I don't see support for your statement.

Corporate properties developed under Prop 13 are what are creating unfair burdens on the average Californian tax payer, not to mention the average Californian property owner.


A person with three kids living in a bungalow is directly consuming over $30,000 per year in services just for the education of those kids. It's hard to imagine that a piece of business property of the same size is consuming anywhere near that much in services.