6 comments to “Today’s Bawldy’s Go To…”

Phil Hoover on December 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm said:

• Just spoke with one of the Statesman’s reporters who wrote one of the articles.
  He said they did some checking and couldn’t find any connection to the buyers of the two auctioned properties and NMID.
  I wonder what a skilled investigator might turn up?

BawldGuy on December 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm said:

• My guess would be more than that, based on experience.

Robert Coté on December 26th, 2007 at 2:47 pm said:

• If I hadn’t been banned for life from commenting at Bloodhound I’d have left a glowing review. I laughed at the one tongue in cheek reply trying to ‘guess’ the other states. Following up on ‘right pricing.’ We all know that taxes are part of pricing. Prop 13 is either godsend or demon spawn depending upon ones’ perspective. Likewise some parts of Texas have rates bordering on the usurious. That holds prices down not only as to impacts on affordability but also uncertainty in the future. In that context, a dirty bomb was dropped on Monday by the CA LAO who suggested the home mortgage interest deduction ‘loophole’ be closed. You know when they call it LOOPHOLE that they are serious. Even Fabian Nuñez endorsed the idea. For the 2006 buyer of the median home this is more than $2000/yr in new taxes. Texas does not have an income tx. Texas makes up for this horrible loss by having the unmitigated gaul to charge the outrageous rate almost the same as California. BBQ anyone?

Robert Coté on December 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm said:

• Add/change: “charge an outrageous sales tax rate almost the same as California.”

Brian Brady on December 27th, 2007 at 8:50 am said:

• Political moves are hard to predict. Consider these two thoughts:

  1- Pressure from investors revamps the Texas tax system to more fairly distribute the burden to the users.

  2- Pressure from the immigrants (of which I’m one) forces the California legislature to address Prop 13. It may be the sacred cow but it is viciously corrupt in the way it protects the “old guard”

  Taxes are necessary until they’re not. Repeal Prop 13 in CA and institute an income tax in Texas and you’ll hear a yawp of monumental proportion.

  …and then we’ll be forced to make some hard decisions in our government about our spending.

BawldGuy on December 27th, 2007 at 9:55 am said:

• Brian — with very rare exceptions, the ‘we’ you speak of are weak kneed, opportunistic, and for the most part, rudderless politicians. That’s why Prop 13 was put into the CA constitution and not passed merely as a law.

  Only when ‘the people’ pull their heads out and begin ruthlessly casting their votes for those who will hold us AND themselves accountable, will our spending, and subsequently our taxes go down.

  After watching what’s happened the last eight years in congress re: spending, I’m not exactly encouraged.

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