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Marco Li Mandri wants to get around Prop 13
Im not surprised Todd loves it. He loves building parking lots and putting in new meters everywhere so citizens will be hounded w/ parking fees everywhere they go. The provision about providing "parking facilities" scares me. seems that D3 has turned into 1 giant paid parking lot thanks to Todd Gloria. Land that could have been turned into community gardens...paid parking lots.— April 26, 2012 3:21 p.m.
Why Californians Should Say NO to Any Tax Hikes
I mean Im even voting no on the cigarette tax. Usually I vote yes on cig taxes because I dont smoke. But I dont want the Sac politicians to have 1 more penny of revenue because it is all 1 GIANT slush fund no matter what they say. Even the cap and trade money is going to be used for stuff our taxes already pay for in order to free up more tax dollars for special interests. I say vote no on every single tax increase period.— April 24, 2012 11:40 p.m.
Why Californians Should Say NO to Any Tax Hikes
EXACTLY!!! but in the meantime they are lobbying through shill non-profits like Causa Justa to get billions in mortgage bailouts which is just money to banks and billions to developers to build MORE housing despite a historic glut in CA. If people see a group that claims to represent social justice they buy it hook line and sinker and dont ask any real questions. people need to start asking questions about these alleged programs for the poor. the programs that actually benefit them the most are social security because the money goes directly to them and not thru a middle man and food stamps. the programs that dont benefit the poor are all these ridiculous "job creation" programs that give money to Walmart and affordable housing that gives money to developers like ADI and Jennifer LeSar. I mean the idea that the ADI case is an isolated incidence of fraud is assinine. there are billions of dollars in this fraud not being investigated because the politicians like Atkins and Perez are financially benefiting thru these Delaware LLcs that dont require the disclosure of investors.— April 24, 2012 8:12 p.m.
Why Californians Should Say NO to Any Tax Hikes
I agree that Dems prey upon the poor claiming to be their champions when in reality they are banking off "poverty". Poverty is BIG BIG business. Redevelopment which is mostly low inc housing is a 5.5 BILLION dollar business in CA. Can you imagine any other special interest getting 5.5 BILLION of our state tax dollars? no wonder Toni Atkins is now co-sponsoring AB 1585 to spend 1.4 Billion on more low inc housing. Intersting in light of the fact taht her wife jennifer lesar is a low inc housing developer and does the financing as an ex B of A investment banker. She also received $500,000 in redevelopment $ to count homeless people and come up w/ a solution.— April 24, 2012 8:06 p.m.
Politicians, Community Leaders Speak Out Against Walmart in Sherman Heights
"A Sprawl-Busters phone survey this week with 15 EZ managers in California turned up at least 20 Wal-Marts built inside of Enterprise Zones in places like Antelope Valley, Imperial Valley, Kings County, Long Beach, Oakland, Richmond, Salinas Valley, Santa Clarita, Shasta, West Sacramento and Yuba. The voucher manager in the city of Palmdale told me that there are 5 Wal-Mart’s inside the Antelope Valley Enterprise Zone alone. The exact value of the “hiring tax credits” Wal-Mart has received from California is “highly confidential” one EZ manager told me. A spokesman for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, which oversees the EZ program, could not count the total number of Wal-Marts in Enterprise Zones, saying “We don’t collect business specific information.” Under the California Administrative Code, vouchers granted in EZ zones are confidential, but the figures are accessible to the zone staff, the zone governing body, the California Franchise Tax Board, and the state Department of Housing. An eligible Wal-Mart worker making $12 an hour for 35 hours a week translates into a “hiring credit” worth roughly $11,000, or half his salary, in the first year. That’s $1.1 million for 100 workers. The credit continues for 5 years at stepped-down levels---but the total tax break for Wal-Marts in California EZs could be in the millions."— April 20, 2012 3:45 p.m.
Politicians, Community Leaders Speak Out Against Walmart in Sherman Heights
Also do people realize how much state tax money Walmart gets every year through a program called California EZ. http://www.sprawl-busters.com/search.php?readstory=3895 Walmart gets about $11,000 per employee for most of the stores they create per year. This while Brown and others are demanding Californians vote for tax hikes.— April 20, 2012 3:43 p.m.
Politicians, Community Leaders Speak Out Against Walmart in Sherman Heights
"“We want to see this [property] developed. We want a good grocery store to come into this neighborhood,” Alvarez continued. “I thank Wal-Mart for actually taking an interest in this property, because no one else has . . . I absolutely support the revitalization of this property,” Alvarez said, reiterating that his opposition was not to Wal-Mart itself but the suspended communication between community leaders and the company. “We’re welcoming them to continue that dialogue,” assured Georgette Gomez of the Environmental Health Coalition." Really? "thanking walmart"? No one else wanted to restore the Farmers market? I have a HARD time believing that. That is what they always put out there.."no one else would invest in this community" BS!!!!! That is total BS! Id like to see the evidence...the effort they made to get other businesses to invest.— April 20, 2012 3:41 p.m.
Oversight Board Meets to Disband Chula Vista’s Redevelopment Agency
there are alot of Bills in the state right now that seek to save redevelopment in various ways. 1 adds a tax to new homebuyers to pay for low/mod income housing. its time to kill this corp welfare once and for all!! We need something on the ballot that forbids state tax dollars from being spent to build any new housing. That is what the 50 billion a yr in HUD $ is for. And we have a HUGE glut of housing now. This must stop . we are turning CA into 1 gigantic ghetto w/ these poorly planned toxic tenement slums. Just drive down el cajon blvd and see the fresh slums brought to us in the name of "fixing" blight.— April 10, 2012 10:24 p.m.
Oversight Board Meets to Disband Chula Vista’s Redevelopment Agency
BTW if anyone has any doubt about what a scam and waste of tax money affordable housing is look at this example. 1 CA affordable housing developer stoled a quarter of a BILLION dollars from tax payers and was only discovered because of a bitter ex wife. http://www.bestdefender.com/news/April11/28.html— April 10, 2012 10:21 p.m.
Oversight Board Meets to Disband Chula Vista’s Redevelopment Agency
http://senate.ca.gov/senators Here are your state senators. please contact them IMMEDIATELY and oppose this massive giveaway.— April 10, 2012 10:20 p.m.