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If you pay $8,400, then your property is worth about $1.2 million -- property you paid $95,000 for.  You should be ashamed to come whining to us about poor you and your taxes.

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The woman who complained about her $7,000 property tax bill -- she has a million dollar home!  I'm sure she doesn't think of herself as rich, but she is.

Measure 5 should be replaced with a $250,000 homestead exemption, indexed for inflation.  In other words, the first $250K of house value -- no tax at all.  But above that, and most imiportantly all business property -- pay your fair share.  (In case you're wondering, my house is around $500K so yes I'd be one of the people paying.)

Measure 5 used fears of people with modest homes to get a big tax break for the rich and companies.  The homestead exemption would prevent that.

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Why are you so afraid of the Spanish language?  America is the only major developed country where the majority of citizens are unable to speak a second language.  You seem scared to death that we might learn one (the way Europeans are learning English).

This may shock you but people are actually able to speak more than one language at the same time.  Some think it actually makes them smarter (and less paranoid).

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Please stop focusing on immigration! The vast majority of Latinos in the U.S. are citizens, by any one's count.

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You're right about being taken advantage of.  Illegal immigrants are here for one reason -- because business owners want them here, to undercut the power of labor and unions.

Notice that while Republicans love to attack immigrants, they refuse to prosecute the factory owners who hire them.  Most don't even want to make it illegal.  The same rich conservative politicians often have hired illegal immigrants in their own house -- Meg Whitman, Mitt Romney, Lou Dobbs.  Poor people don't hire gardeners and nannies.

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