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Hawaii- Done
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The Omega Man had to make due (S&W M76?) with what he had at the time:
But he still died in the end with a spear in his guts.
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Wait, what?!
My total property tax to the City and County of San Francisco is 1.3% of accessed value. 1.19% when I take out the SF taxes.
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On the local level there are now no legal consequences for intentionally doing anything illegal anywhere now, unless you're just a run of the mill working stiff who happens to actually pay taxes.
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Maybe the solution is to stop voting for whatever party is running things.
Everywhere I hear people bitching about the direction things are going...meanwhile they wax poetic against the policies of the very people they are voting for.
I'm like, why didn't you vote for the other guy, you seem to agree with him/her on everything...?
Same story, pretty much every city in the USA right now. If it's not that way, it's going in that direction.
It's not just AirBnB - "Quality of life" violations are no longer considered and important issue by city governments and therefore not enforced.
Noise issues, code enforcement issues, theft, etc.
Lots of posters here will tell you to quit bitching and just take it up the ass. "BOY YOU REALLY COMPLAIN A LOT!"
Of course, like in the case of my neighbor, that's until their neighbor installs an 8000 lumen light on his property and points it so it's shining directly into their window. The victim calls code enforcement and get told "Sorry that's a Tier 3 violation and we're not enforcing those right now. You'd have to take him to court and sue him..."
I know another homeowner formerly of the same ilk who recently went to a rental unit across the street to tell them to STFU while they were throwing a party @ 2AM. This is because the cops are too understaffed to show up until hours later so the PD takes the call off their to do list after a few hours (it's just a quality of life issue, ya know?)...now he's tangled up in a restraining order ordeal freaking out because the judge could essentially kick him out of his own home...
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It's nice to think you can do whatever you want with your property, but with human nature being what it is, that's a bad idea. Enough people will fuck things up for everybody without qualms that we have to have legal and societal restrictions. Even if it's your own home, if you use it for a business you have to comform to the rules. Otherwise you get anarchy.
they tried this couple years ago with a proposed constitutional amendment to fund education but the realtor assoc scare tactics won out
they need to fix the system before wasting anymore money on it
flatten the system and pare down the admin side of DOE but make the schools more accountable with oversite to prevent fraud. So much fraud, even in the charter system millions wasted thousands stolen every year.
Find ways to put the money where it's really needed and make the most difference.
Then find the funds.
If you throw more money at the current problem it it'll just be wasted
Just like everything here, it's a convoluted mess where everyone's unhappy except those at the top in power.
I bet the situation is the same in HI:
California’s K-12 spending exceeds $20,000 per pupil
“It’s not enough. We’re still 41st in the nation in per pupil funding. Something needs to change. We need to have an honest conversation about how we fund our schools at a state and local level,” – California Governor Gavin Newsom, State of the State Address, February 12, 2020 It should come as...
californiapolicycenter.org
Out here, the pension obligations are skyrocketing and school districts are basically becoming pension fund managers, stripping down everything to keep up the payments to CalSTRS. Local school districts in my area are having layoffs.
The state off-loaded pension payments to the districts to help balance Sacramento's books. They did the same to local governemts / PERS, I believe. Oddly, many districts are currently swimming in money due to Covid relief dough and increased tax revenues.I bet the situation is the same in HI:
California’s K-12 spending exceeds $20,000 per pupil
“It’s not enough. We’re still 41st in the nation in per pupil funding. Something needs to change. We need to have an honest conversation about how we fund our schools at a state and local level,” – California Governor Gavin Newsom, State of the State Address, February 12, 2020 It should come as...
Out here, the pension obligations are skyrocketing and school districts are basically becoming pension fund managers, stripping down everything to keep up the payments to CalSTRS. Local school districts in my area are having layoffs.
That's not true here:
San Diego school districts still face deficits despite flood of COVID cash
COVID relief funds may be masking structural budget deficits, county office says
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
Warren Buffet was asked this weekend why Berkshire Hathaway doesn't start paying a dividend rather than re-investing its profits as it has always done. He said that would be unfair to the shareholders who mostly bought Berkshire because they were savers and liked how Berkshire re-invested and that people who wanted dividends bought stock in other companies.
Which is like zoning. You take what seems like a big risk at the time, buy a house with a steep mortgage payment in an area that you like because of how its zoned, who lives there, just the whole nature of the place - that's why you buy - that's why you agree to dedicate 28% or more of your earnings to it for a long period of time. For someone to come along and radically change that without even a vote on it is wrong. If my neighbor started renting out a room in their single family house I would prosecute that relentlessly. They didn't buy a rooming house so they should have no expectation of having one. And zoning - building codes - all of it came from what went wrong in the past and protects people who have an investment in the neighborhood so that they can continue to enjoy what they bought.
Which is like zoning. You take what seems like a big risk at the time, buy a house with a steep mortgage payment in an area that you like because of how its zoned, who lives there, just the whole nature of the place - that's why you buy - that's why you agree to dedicate 28% or more of your earnings to it for a long period of time. For someone to come along and radically change that without even a vote on it is wrong. If my neighbor started renting out a room in their single family house I would prosecute that relentlessly. They didn't buy a rooming house so they should have no expectation of having one. And zoning - building codes - all of it came from what went wrong in the past and protects people who have an investment in the neighborhood so that they can continue to enjoy what they bought.
Your argument doesn't work when people who have been living in my neighborhood for 60+ years are told their extra unit can't be put on Airbnb anymore because the rich transplant that just moved in next door doesn't like it.
Ok fine prosecute it.
What most people don’t realize it’s a civil matter and the punishment for it is very minor and can only remain proportional to the infraction which allowing someone to stay in your home is
clearly flat for the summer... otherwise, what hawaiian would be posting up here instead of surfing, yes?
Just finished this book.
It is brilliant. I couldn't put it down and I thought it captured the experience of Hawaii perfectly. It felt like the book was talking about my family members.
