The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context

Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by andy-x on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:32PM (#17474421)

Ending Prop. 13 will not solve anything. If more people want to live here they need to build more housing. You instead proposing to kick out people who already live here just because they cannot afford to pay much higher taxes. Sounds pretty close to genocide to me.

And in the first place who said that taxes proportional to property prices is the best economically viable option? Are schools or police or roads become proportionally more expensive with rising property prices?

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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by twblalock on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:41PM (#17474496)

> Ending Prop. 13 will not solve anything. If more people want to live here they need to build more housing. You instead proposing to kick out people who already live here just because they cannot afford to pay much higher taxes. Sounds pretty close to genocide to me.

Uh, no, that's nowhere close to genocide.

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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by andy-x on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:04PM (#17474678)

Gentricide then :)

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Re:The Bay Area’s tech boom in historical and social context by pscsbs on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:18PM (#17475203)

No.

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