Re: here's something you don't see very often in San Francisco...

Hello Keith,


Inaddition to being number 1, I pay $5500 in local property tax on my
modest 1800ft cape.


Here it's roughly 1.2% of purchase price per year, and the voters have placed a cap on increases that limits these to inflation rate or 2% whichever is smaller, IIRC. So the politicians can't tax people out of their homes anymore. Of course, the spending lobby is constantly trying to attack that but in 20+ years they haven't succeeded.


The other factor that will decide our next move is the biz climate. IOW
finding the area with the least amount of regulatory hurdles. And no
winter :-)

Don't even think about VT. We're the most business unfriendly state
since tax-your-two-shits. The out-a-state trust-funded greenies have
taken over.


This usually leads to a gradual decline in in-state business, revenue, average wages, standard of living etc. However, most politicians do not fully understand that. Often they don't even know what a Laffer curve is.

Regards, Joerg

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