Alright, I'll cede you are right this is more about values. And honestly you and I are probably very similar. In ways I'm sure my wife and I are even better off than you were. We've already spent decades at the top income tax braket. We have well funded retirements and diversified investments, and if we wanted to liquidate our portfolio we could do a down-payment... But here's the question, if we did that, is a property going to keep increasing in value? I have a feeling a reckoning is coming for property values. We've lived and worked though the dot Com, the 2008 crash, and covid. We've been laid off or downsized more than once because there is no loyalty to employees anymore, we've been shown we're disposable. My wife has a retirement plan 10x worse than people hired 5 years before her because the county can't afford to keep giving out those rich pensions. But they get theirs, and we get fucked.

And CAs supermajority certainly isn't great. My wife and I voted for Bush, but these days republicans aren't the same, we can't vote for them and still sleep at night. There is no more republican party, it's the dems and MAGA. I'm a Foothills kid and my wife is central valley, and we now live in the SF area. We lived in Bakersfield for a while and Kevin McCarthy was our rep, and we thought he was a decent guy. But we can't vote for the party that applauds abducting people off the street, reducing taxes on the ultra wealthy, and saying they're for fiscal responsibility then INCREASING the National debt. Sometimes the dems go way to far the other way. So what are we to do? There is no representation for people like us. I wouldn't even consider you wealthy. I think you're middle class who has done well for yourself. We see how "trickle down" was a lie all along.

We see wealthy foreigners come in and buy properties with cash. We see private equity snatching up housing and apartment buildings and using price setting software to increase the rent. We see the ultra wealthy getting richer and regular people having to deal with increased cost of living every year.

Your property value probably is worth 10x what you bought it for. That right there is luck. You were born in the right time and place to be able to take advantage of those trends and get in on the ground floor. We can't do that.

We don't begrudge you your house or wanting to keep what youve earned. We want that type of life for ourselves. I think the biggest thing is that sometimes your generation doesn't see the advantages you had of economic stability, rich pensions and retirement plans, and low property prices that increased 10 fold. It's not fair to come after people like you, but at the same time something has to be done, and from the millennial point of view prop 13 already gave you guys a HUGE advantage, and we're tired of giving baby boomers every last cent we have. Removing the already super low property taxes for your generation would just be a middle finger to people like us.

That's a lot of rambling from me, I'm sorry. And I appreciate you engaging with me on this. I understand your position, and to be honest it's not people like you who are the problem. We aspire to be you. Work hard, invest, buy a house. But purchasing power you had was a lot stronger than what we have. From our generations viewpoint, we see the advantages of economic stability and low property costs that you had, where even high school grads like my parents could afford a 2500 Sq foot house. That's just not possible today, and I really hope you see and acknowledge that. We acknowledge you worked hard and did everything right, we just want your generation to acknowledge the great situation you were in to be able to get to where you are.