[SCUDSBROTHER]

My parents been paying like $600-$700 in property tax each year for a long time. The young people who bought the house across the street (say 5 years ago) were probably paying 3-5k/yr. in property tax. I'm sure that now went down slightly when housing prices dipped. My parents stayed put all these years, because prop 13 froze those prop taxes. In other words, we gave this older generation the fkn bank. By the time I get half of this, it might be a $400k house. 4 OR 5 years ago, there really wasn't a house in W. Covina selling for much less than half a mil. I knew it was fake. Told him to sell, but they'd have to give up that cheap prop tax deal. So, they're still there. They like the weather. Guess they're gunna die out there. Still gunna be getting that low prop tax. I know that. Anyways, that part of the fiscal problem (low prop tax money.) Combine that with having to pay for the schooling of the products of irresponsible breeders, and we've def. got problems. Meg W. will come in n' cut services. It isn't the same running a state versus running EBAY. She'll wish she'd stayed the hell home. Running EBAY was a thousand times easier. Dictators are totally lost when they have to participate in running a Democracy.