Anonymous ID: 356b70 Aug. 18, 2018, 8:04 p.m. No.2662286   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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California Initiative Filed to End Proposition 13 Protections for Commercial Properties

 

A coalition of liberals turned in 860,000 signatures on August 14 for a 2020 vote to end Proposition 13 protections for commercial properties, according to CALmatters.

Funded by Silicon Valley deep pockets — including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, the personal charity of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan; a coalition of teachers unions; the League of Women Voters; affordable housing advocates; and other “social justice warriors” organized as “Schools and Communities First,” — the activists submitted the signatures to the Secretary of State on August 14 to place an initiative on the 2020 ballot to increase California commercial property tax revenue by $11 billion.

 

Passed by about two-thirds of voters in June 1978 as a California Constitutional Amendment, Proposition 13 rolled back and froze residential and commercial assessed property values to 1976 levels, and limited the property tax increases to no more than 2 percent per year, as long as the property was not sold. Once a property was sold, the property was reassessed at 1 percent of the sale price and property tax increases were limited to a maximum of 2 percent in future years, according to California Tax Data.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/08/18/proposition-13-california-initiative-filed-to-end-prop-13-protections-for-commercial-properties/

Anonymous ID: 356b70 Aug. 18, 2018, 8:51 p.m. No.2662724   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2763 >>2778

Putin and Merkel share a drink in the sunshine as they discuss a new gas pipeline after Trump blasted Germany for being reliant on Russian energy

 

Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel relaxed in the beautiful garden of a German country palace as they began talks on a new gas pipeline.

The Russian President and German Chancellor looked like old pals as they sipped white wine and rosé at a picnic table as the sun beat down.

Top of their agenda on Saturday was the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would carry Russian gas under the Baltic Sea to Germany.

The project became controversial after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Germany of being a 'captive of Russia' for buying its gas.

'Germany is totally controlled by Russia. I think its a very bad thing for NATO, and I don't think it should have happened,' he said at a G7 meeting last month.

'You're just making Russia richer. You're not dealing with Russia, you're making Russia richer.'

Germany imports 55 billion cubic meters of gas, 70 per cent of its needs, from Russia and the new pipeline would double that.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6074277/Putin-Merkel-discuss-pipeline-Trump-slammed-gas-deal.html