To: President Donald Trump, The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom
Reform Proposition 13
Proposition 13 needs an overhaul to save our schools, and protection services paid through our property tax base. California, a once prosperous state, with state of the art education, excellent fire and police protection, is in grave danger of budget cut backs while corporations make record breaking profits.
Why is this important?
This proposition is a plea to have the old Proposition 13 tax law overhauled in several ways. Firstly, it is completely insidious that corporations such as Google pay property tax rates based on this law, while accumulating millions of dollars in profits at the expense of California school systems and protection services from the police and fire departments. Secondly, it is completely unfair that new homeowners have to pay taxes based upon this law for extremely high priced homes, when their neighbors have willed their properties to their children who then receive the benefit of this law, when it was originally supposed to be for people who would live in their home until death so they could afford to keep their homes. This is unfair to younger families who are then forced to pay an unrealistic tax rate to pay for the deficiencies in tax revenue. My son and daughter in law live in Los Altos California and the price of homes is around $700.000 to a million dollars. This tax law prevents them from being able to buy a home with the addition of a tax that adds thousands of dollars more to a home while the people living across the street pay taxes based on a home purchased for $22,000.00 paying practically nothing in yearly property taxes. This is happening all over the state of California. Mr. Jarvis has been deceased for many years, the law is out of date for the current economic situation of our state and country. The most glaring inequity being the amount that large corporations pay for their multimillion, billion dollar businesses. Please help us bring this issue to the forefront of reformation in our state for the good of education and protection services, not to mention the affordability of homes for young families.
My name is Jean Nielson. I was an educator for twenty years. I know the crisis in education and it is destroying our college system, as well as the K-12 system. I am working after retirement because I still care for children and the welfare of our future. Help Californians realize the damage of this proposition. Please sign my petition so we can limit corporate wealth and help the citizens of our state.
Sincerely,
Jean Nielson MA Education
My name is Jean Nielson. I was an educator for twenty years. I know the crisis in education and it is destroying our college system, as well as the K-12 system. I am working after retirement because I still care for children and the welfare of our future. Help Californians realize the damage of this proposition. Please sign my petition so we can limit corporate wealth and help the citizens of our state.
Sincerely,
Jean Nielson MA Education