> what did California do for its residents (the answer is: nothing)
That is not true either. There is a very low property tax for the long-time residents. That incentive, in turn, makes it harder to modernize the houses and infrastructure. Which results in Internet infrastructure quality lagging behind.
Wait, not charging 20k a year people that bought their home 30 years ago for 150k, you call it "doing something for them"? Funny. Мог бы бритвой по глазам, как говорится.
It's a rich state, with pretty high sales taxes, with a lot of rich companies; the problem is, they waste money on all kinds of bullshit. Schools management instead of teachers. Prisons. High-speed railway, which turns out to be not so high-speed, but much higher price. Etc. Internets is not the state business, it's the companies that are probably being overcharged for doing business here.
I don't need anybody to help me modernize my house, I'm doing it myself.
It is something. The funny thing is that it is a trap: you get your 20k/year tax break and the consequence is that everything else around you is overpriced.
> High-speed railway,
... is the result of not having enough roads. There are not enough roads, because new construction is discouraged. New construction is discouraged, in part, because there is a tax break for the property that was bought many years ago.
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That is not true either.
There is a very low property tax for the long-time residents.
That incentive, in turn, makes it harder to modernize the houses and infrastructure.
Which results in Internet infrastructure quality lagging behind.
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It's a rich state, with pretty high sales taxes, with a lot of rich companies; the problem is, they waste money on all kinds of bullshit. Schools management instead of teachers. Prisons. High-speed railway, which turns out to be not so high-speed, but much higher price. Etc. Internets is not the state business, it's the companies that are probably being overcharged for doing business here.
I don't need anybody to help me modernize my house, I'm doing it myself.
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It is something. The funny thing is that it is a trap: you get your 20k/year tax break and the consequence is that everything else around you is overpriced.
> High-speed railway,
... is the result of not having enough roads.
There are not enough roads, because new construction is discouraged.
New construction is discouraged, in part, because there is a tax break for the property that was bought many years ago.