The following comes from a January 19 Capital Public Radio story by Ben Adler:
California voters could be asked this fall to touch what’s been an untouchable law: the property tax initiative known as Proposition 13. A potential November ballot proposal would raise taxes on the state’s highest-value properties and spend the money on anti-poverty programs.
After nearly 40 years, Proposition 13 is known as the third rail of California politics: you touch it, you die.
But don’t tell that to the Daughters of Charity. The order of Catholic nuns is one of several major donors to an effort to raise taxes on properties valued at more than $3 million.
“It’s a multi-faceted approach to try to get people out of poverty,“ says veteran Democratic strategist Bill Carrick, who’s running the campaign. “That’s the point of it. We’re trying to keep in place — I think we do keep in place — the fundamental protections of Proposition 13,” which caps property taxes at 1 percent of the property’s value and limits increases to 2 percent a year.
Carrick says few homeowners would be affected. But Allan Zaremberg with the California Chamber of Commerce says the measure would reach beyond the rich.
“In California, if you have a small restaurant, you’re probably renting from somebody who has a property of $3 million or more,“ Zaremberg says. “So you’re gonna pay more in rent. And you just can’t afford that.”
Carrick says his campaign has collected roughly half the voter signatures it will need to reach the November ballot.
Each year around the nation catholic charities have pictures taken with bishops before they head off to lobby for new taxes and grants from legislatures. It ain’t charity when it’s taken at the point of a gun. Pictures reminiscent of Hagar the Horrible and the blessing of the fleet before the spring raids on Ireland. The more things change the more they remain the same.
Fascinating. A group who has never effectively run a business (they bankrupted their hospital-system) or balance a budget, who are generally exempt from crushing property taxes, is “all in” on more legalized government seizure of private resources.
V.I. Lenin: “Useful idiots”.
I suggest taxing the sisters’ properties at for-profit rates, not the discounted non-profit rates.
Paying taxes, giving money to government, isn’t giving to charity. The nuns know that. Donating money to a charitable organization is giving to charity. Funneling the “charitable taxes” through government is absolutely the most inefficient way to help the poor. Sixty cents of every dollar spent on welfare and food stamps is wasted on administrative costs.
Thou shall not steal.
Ganging up at the ballot box doesn’t change the true nature of what is taking place. Taxation is theft. Some might be necessary, but it should be minimized.
Taxation is NOT theft. Theft is “a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property”
If taxes are lawfully levied, then taxation is not theft. If you think your taxes weren’t lawfully levied, perhaps you should sue the government.
And even if the government could be sued—did not have sovereign immunity—the suit would be heard ny judges—government employees.
If your philosophy isn’t “Might makes right,” how does it differ?
If you are voting because you want other people’s stuff, you are stealing, legal or not. You are also coveting… that’s number 9.
number 10.
That the government removes the felonious aspect from the taking and removing of personal property with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it only makes it legal theft, but still theft and scandal also.
Socialists and communists who don’t pay much in tax love to spend other peoples’ money. They have been taken care of all their lives, have a huge mandated collection every December in all the parishes. Of course they demand more because so much has been given them. Before the 80’s they lived in common and had little compensation. Now religious salaries are competitive with lay salaries, but tax structure is different because it goes through the order.
They don’t say how “Major” the donation, Or Where the Money Originated.
Funny – Not… One story on line here is about Bishop Soto Not Permitting Signature Gathering for important goals, like Petitions Protecting Children
SEE
https://www.caparentalrights.org/resources.html
Toll Free: (844) 335-5548
& https://savecalifornia.com/action.html
BUT – Other Petitions for Raising Taxes, and giving the money to radical leftist / gender feminist / homosexuals democrat activists to spend, are just peachy.
Or did I miss something growing in the orchard of political donations.
Using the threat of force to take money from one person to give to another person is not charity, it is theft!
Taking Caesar’s Coin means Mandatory Compliance with Caesar’s Rules – including all the hateful Anti-Catholic propaganda against and prohibitions on practice of the Catholic Faith.
Laundering Extra Taxes through Sacramento just enables those trying to destroy the Catholic Church and turn it in to a subsidiary of the One Party State that now pretty much rules like an insane dictatorship of dunces.
I think that Catholic Funds should go to Catholic Projects and Catholics should be given Grants – (without the employment scams mandated by sacramento) – for training and then to allow them to volunteer to Rebuild the Church & its Outreach Programs – Absent Caesar.
As ranchers we would be run out of state if not for prop 13. We have a less than average income. We will certainly be reducing or stopping our church contributions.