tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post6237730425959205282..comments2024-03-17T18:37:36.377-07:00Comments on Geotripper: We're Going to be Shooting Blanks Soon...Garry Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531226195147986457noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-25380367385084529192012-02-25T17:47:25.148-08:002012-02-25T17:47:25.148-08:00My school is also suffering drastic cutbacks due t...My school is also suffering drastic cutbacks due to the State's financial difficulties.<br /><br />And it's not just schools. Have you heard what happened at Mitchell Caverns? The visitor Center was vandalized and equipment was stolen. Apparently the thieve even pulled up the wires that supplied power to the cavern lights!<br /><br />Fortunately, there's a solution to the State's financial woes. Rewrite the mistakes of "proposition 13". Protections for homeowners on a fixed income can remain, but the other inequities can be gradually erased. (For those not in California -- homeowners can be paying property taxes that are double, triple or quadruple what their neighbors with similar properties pay!) And business property should be taxed at it's current value, not at the 1978 value!Randy A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-41162637911767965222012-02-24T09:40:25.735-08:002012-02-24T09:40:25.735-08:00Maybe you have already done this, but if not, you ...Maybe you have already done this, but if not, you should submit this blog post as an op ed to one of the CA papers. It is very well written and, methinks, very effective. I am a regular reader but was still moved to tears.Alaskanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5211670216140060946.post-20425598174644614142012-02-24T00:23:57.645-08:002012-02-24T00:23:57.645-08:00It's as you say in your previous post--we are ...It's as you say in your previous post--we are increasingly so "strangers in a strange land."ssonRevrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01906290746860646907noreply@blogger.com