{"id":9255,"date":"2009-06-30T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-30T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:39:21","slug":"prop-13-phil-ting-and-1000-volts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/30\/prop-13-phil-ting-and-1000-volts\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 13: Phil Ting and 1000 Volts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>We’ve mentioned Phil Ting’s<\/a> quest to split the property tax rolls a bunch of times, but I wanted to draw special attention to an event in San Francisco<\/a> to organize for this vital structural reform. And if this is going to get done, there has to be a real grassroots movement to grab the 1,000 volt third rail of California politics.<\/p>\n

And this is an achievable goal, despite whatever the conventional wisdom says. Table 6 in this  Field Poll (PDF) from last year<\/a> is particularly relevant. So, the good news, is that we have a great shot at fixing the split roll question no matter which way the issue is framed.  But, you can clearly see that framing matters with this question.  <\/p>\n

When voters are asked whether they would prefer higher commercial taxes than residential taxes, 47% of voters say yes. However, when asked if they would prefer having lower residential property taxes than commercial property taxes, which describes the same situation, 61% approve.  Either way, we start with a small lead, but it becomes much bigger when the right question is asked.<\/p>\n

The event’s going to be a quasi-focus group, quasi organizing event, quasi-brainstorming kind of session. So, bring your bright ideas, and let’s get started right now on at least one reform.<\/p>\n

Here are the details<\/a>:
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Date: \t   Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Time: \t   6:30pm – 8:00pm
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Location:  SF LGBT Center
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Street:    1800 Market St.
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City\/Town: San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Photobucket\"<\/a>We’ve mentioned Phil Ting’s<\/a> quest to split the property tax rolls a bunch of times, but I wanted to draw special attention to an event in San Francisco<\/a> to organize for this vital structural reform. And if this is going to get done, there has to be a real grassroots movement to grab the 1,000 volt third rail of California politics.<\/p>\n

And this is an achievable goal, despite whatever the conventional wisdom says. Table 6 in this  Field Poll (PDF) from last year<\/a> is particularly relevant. So, the good news, is that we have a great shot at fixing the split roll question no matter which way the issue is framed.  But, you can clearly see that framing matters with this question.  <\/p>\n

When voters are asked whether they would prefer higher commercial taxes than residential taxes, 47% of voters say yes. However, when asked if they would prefer having lower residential property taxes than commercial property taxes, which describes the same situation, 61% approve.  Either way, we start with a small lead, but it becomes much bigger when the right question is asked.<\/p>\n

The event’s going to be a quasi-focus group, quasi organizing event, quasi-brainstorming kind of session. So, bring your bright ideas, and let’s get started right now on at least one reform.<\/p>\n

Here are the details<\/a>:
\n
Date: \t   Wednesday, July 1, 2009
\n
Time: \t   6:30pm – 8:00pm
\n
Location:  SF LGBT Center
\n
Street:    1800 Market St.
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City\/Town: San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[3165,754,60],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-3165","tag-754","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}