Opinion: Race-baiting for tax fairness (or more money for failing governments)
Around this time last month, I was minding my own business doing whatever it is that I do when someone sent along what can generously be called a news story about some Bay Area groups whining about Proposition 13., came with the loaded headline, “Prop. 13 offers higher tax breaks for California homeowners in White neighborhoods.”
I’ll cut to the chase: I found the underlying report quite dumb — a perception aided by the fact that the report refers to Latinos as “Latinx” — and wrote a quick response to it online. You can find it with the headline, “I’m only writing about this in print now because the same news story, with some changes, was published on the website of this newspaper onThe report at hand was produced by the Tax Fairness Project and the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association.
“Low-income households may be getting a far smaller subsidy, but it’s a subsidy nonetheless,” the news story begrudgingly concedes, using the word “subsidy” when all that’s really happening is that homeowners are keeping more of their own money. This is even more ironic considering that the report itself states, “Black and [Latino] homeowners are also likely to pay higher proportions of their income in property taxes.”Brilliant. Utterly brilliant.
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