Comments on: REPLACEMENT PARCEL TAX HEADED TO JUNE BALLOT http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2010/03/alameda-replacement-parcel-tax-headed-to-june-ballot-article005/ Alameda news. Now. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Goldberg http://www.theislandofalameda.com/2010/03/alameda-replacement-parcel-tax-headed-to-june-ballot-article005/comment-page-1/#comment-3895 Goldberg Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:00:51 +0000 http://www.theislandofalameda.com/?p=7801#comment-3895 Of course Hirshberg wants a tax of four cents a square foot, if he'd otherwise pay 13 cents. Why doesn't he realize what the rest of Alameda knows, which is that this tax directly improves the value of our property? I have to pay this tax, and I hate paying tax, too... but at least this money goes into the schools in my own community, where it benefits my children and my community. Yes, tax is unfair and inequitable. In California, there can be five homes on a block with the same square footage, built in the same year, and all pay drastically different amounts of property tax. There are all sorts of inequalities in tax structures, and that's why people pay tax experts. Of course Hirshberg wants a tax of four cents a square foot, if he’d otherwise pay 13 cents. Why doesn’t he realize what the rest of Alameda knows, which is that this tax directly improves the value of our property? I have to pay this tax, and I hate paying tax, too… but at least this money goes into the schools in my own community, where it benefits my children and my community.

Yes, tax is unfair and inequitable. In California, there can be five homes on a block with the same square footage, built in the same year, and all pay drastically different amounts of property tax. There are all sorts of inequalities in tax structures, and that’s why people pay tax experts.

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