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rgio

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Posted: Jan 16, 2025 - 4:51am

 kurtster wrote:

I didn't bring up the budget, you did and I just responded.  Never was my point, it was yours.

I only mentioned that Newsome was blocking the legitimate sale of property and his motivation for it.  It is also to keep people from cashing out and moving taking their taxable income part out of the tax base with them.

Newsome is desperate to keep people from leaving with the annual loss around 700,000 people per year. That is a boat load of taxable income going bye, bye. He has been trying hard to get an exit tax imposed as a penalty for leaving.  So far he has failed to get that done.

You're playing checkers.

I appreciate that on Fox news and your online sources facts are inconvenient, but to paraphrase our discussion.

- you suggest that Newsome is making policy to protect real estate tax revenue.
- I respond, pointing out the stupidity of an argument over 0.16% of housing stock, and the resultant impact on RE taxes 
- You point out there is an accumulated deficit (with links even)
- I respond by questioning your newfound concern for CA deficits while supporting the guy who created more national debt than anyone, a mark he's sure to enhance soon
- you respond that I brought up the budget.

Yet another example of your fact avoidance strategy: never answer a question or respond to a statement... you just throw out another one.

The problem with my playing checkers is that you go from playing tic-tac-toe to hopscotch to connect 4 with every answer.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 9:44pm

Pretty much sums it up


kurtster

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 7:23pm

 rgio wrote:

So now you care about deficits?   The US federal deficit is $35T with an annual budget of $7T (deficit of 500%)... no worries...lower taxes. California per your link has $158B debt with a $300B budget (deficit of 50%), and the real estate taxes from the fire are armageddon. Do you ever get tired of being foolish?
 
I didn't bring up the budget, you did and I just responded.  Never was my point, it was yours.

I only mentioned that Newsome was blocking the legitimate sale of property and his motivation for it.  It is also to keep people from cashing out and moving taking their taxable income part out of the tax base with them.

Newsome is desperate to keep people from leaving with the annual loss around 700,000 people per year. That is a boat load of taxable income going bye, bye. He has been trying hard to get an exit tax imposed as a penalty for leaving.  So far he has failed to get that done.

You're playing checkers.
rgio

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 6:27pm

 kurtster wrote:

In the fiscal year of 2024, California's state debt stood at about 158.05 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the state's debt was 57.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2000.

The cost of this fire has been estimated to be up to $200 billion and rising.  That money is real and is going to come from somewhere.

The budget deficit for 2024 - 2025  is set to be $68 billion.  Put those numbers in your rounding errors ...

C'ya ...


So now you care about deficits?   The US federal deficit is $35T with an annual budget of $7T (deficit of 500%)... no worries...lower taxes.

California per your link has $158B debt with a $300B budget (deficit of 50%), and the real estate taxes from the fire are armageddon.

Do you ever get tired of being foolish?
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 5:47pm

 rgio wrote:
The CA budget is almost $300B. 

The impact of the real estate taxes from the fires are a rounding error.  Turn off the TV, stop spewing rhetoric, and think before typing the next foolish comment.

Later,  I'm out (thought I'd beat you to it this time).
 
In the fiscal year of 2024, California's state debt stood at about 158.05 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the state's debt was 57.17 billion U.S. dollars in 2000.

The cost of this fire has been estimated to be up to $200 billion and rising.  That money is real and is going to come from somewhere.

The budget deficit for 2024 - 2025  is set to be $68 billion.  Put those numbers in your rounding errors ...

C'ya ...
rgio

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 5:27pm

 kurtster wrote:

There is going to be hell to pay for this one.  This one is going to cripple California.  Newsome is already blocking sales of burned out properties.  No he's not protecting the homeowner, he's protecting the tax base.  The property tax on an burned out lot at the sale price is a hell of a lot less than one with a $1 million structure standing on it.


For somebody who says they know California, you sure have a blind spot for reality.

The damage is staggering, but in CA 12,000 owner-occupied residences equals about 0.16% of all properties (out of ~7.5M in the state).

(12,000 / 7,500,000) * 100 ≈ 0.16%

Newsom said that CA will not re-assess homes rebuilt, meaning he's going to lose a bit of money on initial assessment, but as we all know,  the new homes will be worth more than those that burned, and those homes will flip and the tax revenue will go up.

The CA budget is almost $300B.  The impact of the real estate taxes from the fires are a rounding error.  Turn off the TV, stop spewing rhetoric, and think before typing the next foolish comment.

Later,  I'm out (thought I'd beat you to it this time).
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 4:47pm

 islander wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

Nice conflation. The subject is the Los Angeles fires, right ?  And the mismanagement of resources given known and predictable events.
and how those known predictable events are made significantly worse by climate change, but you are focused on resume critiques instead of the glaring klaxon of a problem that you refuse to acknowledge. right?
 
These fires are going to be where the rubber meets the road regarding the excuse of Climate Change for the reason for the disaster.  It is not going to fly with this one.  

This is the big one, bigger than the one started by Mrs O'Leary's cow.

There is going to be hell to pay for this one.  This one is going to cripple California.  Newsome is already blocking sales of burned out properties.  No he's not protecting the homeowner, he's protecting the tax base.  The property tax on an burned out lot at the sale price is a hell of a lot less than one with a $1 million structure standing on it.

L A has an estimated 200,000 millionaires and 43 billionaires.

This time, the rich people suffered as well as everyone else.  There have been at least 12,000 and counting, structures burned.  People are pissed, to put it mildly.  We are in constant contact with friends.  The wife is networking a group to find shelter for homeless pets and hears it.

California is set to lose 4 to 5 House seats in 2030 due to population loss and this will only accelerate it.

Calling it Climate Change is not going to work on this one.

To use a local expression, saying it's Climate Change is the same things as saying mañanya ... as in I'll get to it ...
rgio

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 4:25pm

 kurtster wrote:

Nice conflation.

The subject is the Los Angeles fires, right ?  And the mismanagement of resources given known and predictable events.


If you look at FEMA funding from 2017-2019 (periods that have wrapped), and allocate the spend by resident, you get the following:
State FEMA $/Resident
.Louisiana 2,721
.Hawaii 1,551
.Florida 953
.Alaska 687
.Texas 639
.Arkansas 530
.Vermont 525
.Nebraska 454
.Iowa 447
.South Dakota 385
.Kentucky 362
.North Carolina 334
.Mississippi 293
.West Virginia 278
.California 230
.Oregon 223
.Alabama 222
.Oklahoma 209
.Kansas 206
.South Carolina 206
.New Mexico 184
.North Dakota 182
.Missouri 173
.Georgia 163
.Michigan 123
.Montana 122
.Maine 115
The rest are under $100/pp.

I don't recall your outrage over hurricane mismanagement for Harvey, Irma, Maria, Michael, or Florence.  The numbers above include wildfires for those years, including the camp fire.  Hurricanes are as predictable and drought and Santa Ana winds in CA.  Why don't they plan better?

Historically, California is a net funder of FEMA... paying more in taxes to support the program than they draw.  All of the red states you suggest are "so well run"... they use California's money to pay for their disasters.

Do you ever think about your positions, or do you just wanna be as big an asshole as possible like all the other cult members?


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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 4:24pm

Just following The Party Line...
Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is ‘hype’
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 4:06pm

 kurtster wrote:

Nice conflation.

The subject is the Los Angeles fires, right ?  And the mismanagement of resources given known and predictable events.



and how those known predictable events are made significantly worse by climate change, but you are focused on resume critiques instead of the glaring klaxon of a problem that you refuse to acknowledge. right?
kurtster

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 3:13pm

 islander wrote:
nice sidebar. But the three bullet points listed specifically note how human caused climate change is making things worse. would you care to dodge again?
 
Nice conflation.

The subject is the Los Angeles fires, right ?  And the mismanagement of resources given known and predictable events.

islander

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 3:07pm

 kurtster wrote:

The Santa Ana Winds are unique to the area.  And just a little reminder, SoCal is a desert, not some lush tropical paradise.  Deserts are known to be dry.  One reason they call them deserts IIRC.  No matter how much you irrigate the place, it is still a desert.  This is the life cycle of deserts and in particular in the area where the Santa Ana's blow.

This particular desert has been populated beyond sustainability.


nice sidebar. But the three bullet points listed specifically note how human caused climate change is making things worse. would you care to dodge again?
kurtster

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 3:00pm

 geoff_morphini wrote:
Prove that Santa Ana Wind intensity and occurrence has not changed over time, cite your sources. 
 
In what time frame ?

Prove that they have.

You do know that the Missions were built to stand up and resist these winds ?  That they were that big of a deal centuries ago.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:59pm

 islander wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

In the case of the Santa Ana Winds, climate change has absolutely nothing to do with them.  These winds are the direct result of geographic features only which allow these winds to happen, the same as they have for millennia.  And will continue until California falls into the ocean because of the Big One. Climate change does not explain everything regardless of how much you try.

And no matter how hard you try to deny it, there is an impact due to human caused climate change. These changes are making the base problem significantly worse.
  • U.S. wildfires are being fueled by southwestern North America’s driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years, based on soil water content. Human-caused climate change was responsible for 42% of that soil dryness. 1
  • In the western United Stateshuman-caused climate change caused more than half the increase in forest fuel aridity (how dry and flammable vegetation is) since the 1970s and has approximately doubled the cumulative area burned in forest fires since 1984.2
  • Climate change-related declines in western spring snowpack, and increased evaporation from higher temperatures in spring, summer, and fall, have in the decades since the early 1980s reduced moisture and contributed to a marked increase in the frequency of large fires and the total area burned by western wildfires.3 A study of western U.S. ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests concluded that climate change-related moisture deficits are undermining post-wildfire forest regeneration and recovery there
 
The Santa Ana Winds are unique to the area.  And just a little reminder, SoCal is a desert, not some lush tropical paradise.  Deserts are known to be dry.  One reason they call them deserts IIRC.  No matter how much you irrigate the place, it is still a desert.  This is the life cycle of deserts and in particular in the area where the Santa Ana's blow.

This particular desert has been populated beyond sustainability.
geoff_morphini

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:55pm

 kurtster wrote:

In the case of the Santa Ana Winds, climate change has absolutely nothing to do with them.  These winds are the direct result of geographic features only which allow these winds to happen, the same as they have for millennia.  And will continue until California falls into the ocean because of the Big One.

Climate change does not explain everything regardless of how much you try.


Prove that Santa Ana Wind intensity and occurrence has not changed over time, cite your sources. CA will not fall into the ocean either. 
R_P

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:55pm

 kurtster wrote:
Climate change does not explain everything regardless of how much you try.

Nobody claims it explains everything, including how fires get started.

It does explain how it will eventually become unmanageable due to frequency and severity, regardless of who's in power.

islander

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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:42pm

 kurtster wrote:

In the case of the Santa Ana Winds, climate change has absolutely nothing to do with them.  These winds are the direct result of geographic features only which allow these winds to happen, the same as they have for millennia.  And will continue until California falls into the ocean because of the Big One.

Climate change does not explain everything regardless of how much you try.





And no matter how hard you try to deny it, there is an impact due to human caused climate change. These changes are making the base problem significantly worse.
  • U.S. wildfires are being fueled by southwestern North America’s driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years, based on soil water content. Human-caused climate change was responsible for 42% of that soil dryness.
  • In the western United States human-caused climate change caused more than half the increase in forest fuel aridity (how dry and flammable vegetation is) since the 1970s and has approximately doubled the cumulative area burned in forest fires since 1984.
  • Climate change-related declines in western spring snowpack, and increased evaporation from higher temperatures in spring, summer, and fall, have in the decades since the early 1980s reduced moisture and contributed to a marked increase in the frequency of large fires and the total area burned by western wildfires. A study of western U.S. ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests concluded that climate change-related moisture deficits are undermining post-wildfire forest regeneration and recovery there



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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:36pm

 R_P wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

It just ain't gonna change.


For sure if you keep ignoring the elephant in the room.
 
In the case of the Santa Ana Winds, climate change has absolutely nothing to do with them.  These winds are the direct result of geographic features only which allow these winds to happen, the same as they have for millennia.  And will continue until California falls into the ocean because of the Big One.

Climate change does not explain everything regardless of how much you try.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2025 - 2:20pm

 kurtster wrote:

It just ain't gonna change.


For sure if you keep ignoring the elephant in the room.

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