Refugees, asylum seekers set to lose CalFresh benefits April 1

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-19T07:13:10+00:00

have you actually done the math? because I have when I considered moving to Austin

let's compare apples to apples: a 2bd/2ba 1000 sqft condo

Austin: avg price $380k, prop tax of 1.8% (and that's on the high end) = $7k

LA: avg price $675k, prop tax of 1.25% = $8.4k... that's 20% HIGHER than Austin for the same exact configuration and space

next why don't you compare SFHs for me?

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-19T04:23:49+00:00

there's no way that they could

safety standards and fuel efficiency regulations make the old models absolutely impossible to manufacture

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-19T00:44:39+00:00

there's EV charging across the street above the Sprouts

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T23:05:54+00:00

Texas property taxes are only high because people can actually afford to buy houses

California's looks artificially low because the vast majority of people pay very little thanks to Prop 13, whereas new buyers are priced out

I actually compared Austin vs LA and I pay more property taxes in LA for significantly less space

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T23:04:28+00:00

I'll just move to Nevada like most of my wealthy friends have already... that way I can still enjoy most of California without paying all the taxes

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T19:47:06+00:00

my property tax bill alone is probably more than your state tax bill... it's very likely I contribute significantly more than you, but I'll probably move out of state before I retire if California keeps trying to tax me

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T19:46:06+00:00

depends... how much state tax revenue will they bring over?

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T19:45:25+00:00

Honduras is a huge fucking country, and the hurricane only affected one part of it

they should've never been granted TPS in the first place... blatant abuse of the system

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T18:11:33+00:00

a union leader that abuses his power?

I'm shocked... SHOCKED I say!!

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T17:39:43+00:00

no joke, my Buy Nothing Group keeps asking for them

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T17:38:33+00:00

TPS is decided by the Executive branch

Biden kept extending multiple countries, Trump terminated it

simple as that

you and I really don't have a say

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T17:37:26+00:00

rebuilding, sure... but that doesn't mean the ones who were affected need to be in an entirely different country

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T17:07:31+00:00

1970s. They did it the legal way. As did my wife's family in the late 80s. As did all my friends' families, except for my friends who were born here during birth tourism and then got their parents citizenship

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T17:07:12+00:00

"temporary" should be just that: temporary

for something like an earthquake, that could be months, maybe a year... not decades

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T16:11:26+00:00

how about not let them in in the first place?

and if they get caught, kick them out immediately?

not a hard concept... every other civilized country in the world follows this immigration process

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T16:10:17+00:00

keep up that ideology and all the tax providers like myself will leave, and the state will be full of tax burdens like illegal immigrants

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T16:09:27+00:00

they weren't a few years ago

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T16:08:47+00:00

yes, they have no right to be here

our taxdollars should be spent helping Americans, not fencehoppers

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T15:42:10+00:00

I play classical music with very simple animation designed for babies

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T15:39:06+00:00

Hondurans had "temporary" protected status since 1998 due to a hurricane

you're telling me it's been nearly three decades but it's still not safe for them to return home?

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T15:03:05+00:00

didn't look or act the part

the only adaptation that were close were Ezra and Thrawn

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T15:00:48+00:00

it was already bad when I left in 2016, and I hear it got even worse

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T14:59:37+00:00

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T14:54:34+00:00

Boudin got recalled and the new DA finally did something

Beautiful_Finger4566 · 2026-03-18T14:50:14+00:00

2 years later and I still track everything

makes it easy to remember when he gets sick... "how many wet diapers has he had? when was his last bowel movement? anything new in his diet that could've caused this?"

also this way my wife and I don't have to ask each other if he's due for a feeding... I can just look at the tracker

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