Re:Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build ne...
by dragonwriter on Saturday January 08, 2022 @04:41AM
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> Sure, and it was terribly designed if the sole purpose was to save seniors on fixed incomes from losing their homes.
That was not the purpose.
The purpose was to starve state and local government in California of revenue; while it long predates Grover Norquist’s famous statement about getting government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”, it was pushed by people with similar ideology.
(It’s true that the specter of pushing people out of their homes with property taxes was used to sell it, but it was very much not focussed on that in its design or intent.)
That was not the purpose.
The purpose was to starve state and local government in California of revenue; while it long predates Grover Norquist’s famous statement about getting government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”, it was pushed by people with similar ideology.
(It’s true that the specter of pushing people out of their homes with property taxes was used to sell it, but it was very much not focussed on that in its design or intent.)