me: >> in addition, rising house prices and assiduous property assessors >> (trying to raise revenue for the financially-strapped state and local >> governments) led to soaring tax assessments, which squeezed a lot of >> home-owners whose incomes were not rising as quickly (e.g., >> pensioners). This helped form a largely suburban base for the "tax >> revolt," which was exploited to the max by demagogues such as Howard >> Jarvis.
Doyle: > This is the point given to me by otherwise left leaning working class people > I know. They needed relief from higher and higher taxes on their home. I > figured that was shooting themselves in the foot, but they wouldn't listen > to that. yes, the problem of the property tax squeeze on incomes affected working class home-owners, putting them in a situation where short-term survival conflicted with broader, more long-term, interests. Was it Engels who opposed the idea of workers owning houses because it would push them to think in more bourgeois terms? -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
