While making a star for
the person I loved who died of Covid 19 (thank you, reader Dianne
Brenner, for suggesting that we "Honor virus victims with
stars" and thank you Eileen Gertz for living the life you lived, still
shining), I was listening to Joe
Garopoli's podcast “It's All Political" with guest Michael Franti and
the focus positivity in politics and life, a real upper after I'd read
"Fight intensifies over landmark property tax law" in reference to
the Schools and Communities first.
Even before the
pandemic, the gap between the rich and the poor was so huge that closing the
corporate loophole in Prop 13 while protecting individual home owners was
clearly the right thing to do.
Now that we've had this economic
crisis, how could anyone possibly "fight" against this? Lapsley
says that by the time the proposal would take effect, "budgets might be
recovering in a post-pandemic world," but that's not good enough. As
Mayor Schaaf says, the measure represents a fundamental shift, and
"businesspeople should be uncomfortable about the level of income
inequality that we have."
Some have been generous
with donations, but we need a system that doesn’t depend upon generous donations.
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