California: It's for the rich

[purplkat]

Well, the state has already burned through half its firefighting budget fighting the big fire down near LA. A lot of the problem is that they can't just put in a good sized firebreak and let it burn, because there's a ton of houses built by people with no common sense out in the middle of fire country that the firefighters have to try and save,

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[purplkat]

People -vastly- overestimate how common earthquakes are here, as well as their severity. I never understood it. People who live in places that get pounded by tornadoes every couple of years are all 'I couldn't live in California! There are -earthquakes

[weaselofjustice]

Just repeal Proposition 13, effectively bringing property tax in line with what the rest of the United States pays. This might not solve the whole problem, but it would certainly do a hell of a lot (Wikipedia says taxpayers have saved $528 billion from the law's inception in the late 1970's through mid-2009; compare with the budget's reported $40 billion shortfall through the 2010 fiscal year).

But that won't happen either. People have to suck it up and realize that public goods aren't free.

[purplkat]

Yeah, we're going to repeal prop 13 when flying pigs come out of my butt