"You ought come work on Wall Street with ideas like that!"
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Is that an invitation to come work in your group as a subordinate? Seems like I would have little chance of getting past your rigorous hiring standards. Plus the daily humiliation: "Go get my coffee now, Joshy, you circle-jerking cock-sucker." I would probably be the indispensable idea man in your group, though.
LOL! Thanks for the kind words, Dougster. You are always a charmer!
I do post reviews under an alias and I have a good understanding of the personality of all clubs in my area (probably out to clubs about 100 times in my area). I think my reviews would be useful to those coming out of town. However, I never post explicit information about whether there are extras or OTC action at the clubs. I also have a fair amount of experience with the clubs in the Los Angeles and SF Bay area.
My interest in clubs waxes and wanes . In truth, I find strip clubs occasionally exciting, but many times depressing. As an example, my last OTC experience was with a young single mom. We ended up at her place where she was living in squalor -- toys and clothes strewn everywhere, filthy dishes in the sink, overwhelming stench in the house. That's how it often goes for me. My experience with dancers is usually either awkward or depressing or both.
I'm still teaching a class after work, and I have a long history of meeting the opposite sex that way: "The System According to Josh42." It's not exactly sex-for-grades, but I would probably get fired if someone found out. Far more exciting when you're not paying for sex and it takes the place of strip-clubs to some extent.
I have terrible problems with insomnia and I discovered TUSCL late at night, looking for something trashy to put me to sleep. Your posts, Dougster, more than anyone else, helped with the insomnia. I enjoy the discussions about current-events and politics more than the discussions about strip clubs. What makes TUSCL interesting is that there are folks from all different generations, different ethnicities, different political stripes, all in an UNMODERATED forum. The moderation by peer pressure works remarkable well --and if my posts are too political, I'll simply bow out. Your post mostly makes sense Dougster and this is not really the place for politics.
Che wrote: " Those “millions” of people who moved to California in the 1960s and 70s and bought their modest houses for $30-60K and have spent their lives in those same homes have been spared from being taxed on the current market value of $1-2 million" {snip} "Most of them would be forced out of their houses"
So suppose Prop13 is repealed and replaced with a 1.25% property tax on the assessed value. Doesn't an elderly person sitting on $1-2M in equity have the option of taking out a reverse mortgage instead of being forced out? Seems to me, the real objection is that grandma wants all of that home equity to pass on to her heirs. Or perhaps grandpa wants to keep and squander all that home equity on strippers.
Che wrote: "until a few weeks ago I had skin in the game for years with multiple properties."
We sold our SV home in 2006, rented for a few years, then picked up a much nicer foreclosed house in 2009. So we've also had some skin the game --but our decision to sell had absolutely nothing to do with property taxes. My folks bought a home in Southern CA in the late 1960s and they've lived there ever since. I'm completely in favor of trashing Prop13 even though it goes against my self-interest.
When you talk about "thieving politicians" and the "tyranny" of taxation, I start to lose interest in the discussion. Sure there's wasteful government spending and welfare cheats. In CA, there's also UC Berkeley that has top-five programs in math, physics, chem, economics, computer science etc.. Taxation buys civilization.
Che wrote: "As do a couple of million fixed-income elderly homeowners who without the protection of Prop 13 would have been long ago forced out of their homes and down the economic ladder by California’s onerously high property taxes."
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So if Prop13 did in fact protect "millions" of grannies, wouldn't you expect to see a downturn in foreclosures in the years after Prop13 was passed? Can you post anything to support your argument?
Also, to protect granny, do we need to let someone sitting on a property presently valued at $20M to pay property taxes capped at 1% of the price paid 25yrs ago? If Prop13 is supposed to rescue seniors, wouldn't it be easier to simply exempt older people on a fixed income from paying property taxes? I personally think it's fair for granny to pay a fixed percentage of her property taxes if she's lucky enough to see her property value go up. She may need to extract her home equity in some way -- maybe with a reverse mortgage or home equity loan.
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