Posts Tagged ‘split roll’Poll Softening Up Voters For Split Roll TaxSaturday, December 8th, 2012 Dec. 8, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi “Ignorance is strength.” –- George Orwell California’s opinion polling has deteriorated to “measuring the public’s satisfaction with its ignorance” fed to them by pollsters. That is the only conclusion that can be made from the recent opinion... Prop. 13 ‘split roll’ looms: Karma for Chamber of Commerce?Friday, December 7th, 2012Nov. 7, 2012 By Chris Reed For years, the California Chamber of Commerce has had a squishy aversion to confrontation and a comfort level with Sacramento's machine politicians that should inflame any small-government conservative. What has this toadying and willingness to fight against construc... Why a split-roll property tax is DOAMonday, June 11th, 2012 June 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A proposed ballot proposition circulating for signatures in California for what is called a “spilt tax roll” is dead on arrival at the ballot box in November 2012 should it gather the necessary 807,614 signatures. (See Item 1560 -- Initiatives Cleared for ... Ending Prop. 13 would slam small businessThursday, April 19th, 2012April 19, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi There is a big elephant in the room when it comes to a conversation about getting rid of Proposition 13, the 1978 tax limitation measure, by instituting a "split roll." Under such a change, business property would be taxed at higher rates than residences. Th... 396,345 Jobs Lost if Property Tax SplitMonday, March 19th, 2012MARCH 19, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The Davenport School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University is out with a blockbuster new study on the affects of the proposed elimination of caps on commercial property taxes provided for under Proposition 13. The study is titled, “An Analysis of Split ... Villaraigosa Pushes Split-Roll TaxMonday, August 22nd, 2011 Aug. 22, 2011 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's speech Tuesday at the Sacramento Press Club left many reporters wondering what the mayor is doing and what he is running for next. It seems odd for an L.A. mayor to fly to Sacramento and give a speech detailing a so-called "grand new vision" ... Lopez: TaxTaxTaxTaxTaxTaxTaxMonday, July 11th, 2011 John Seiler: L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez continues his tax obsession with another attack on Proposition 13. His title is, "Speaking the unspeakable in California politics" -- except that the "unspeakable" has been spoken continuously ever since voters passed Prop. 13 back in 1978, limiting i... Prop. 13 Split Roll Would Be RipoffMonday, June 20th, 2011 JUNE 20, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI and CHARLES B. WARREN Democrats in the California Legislature want to repeal the property tax reassessment protections of Proposition 13 for commercial properties under the dubious notion that there is a pot of California 49er gold at the end of the rainbow. Pro... |