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SB 584 may value
people out of holidays
Should you wish to trip in your house state of California and keep in short-term leases (VRBO, Airbnb), be ready to pay extra.
If handed, Senate Invoice 584 will improve the taxes you’ll pay to remain in a rental property by 15%. That is on high of current native taxes. For instance, if you wish to trip in a short-term rental on the seaside in Santa Cruz, your complete tax will likely be 29%.
Whereas elevating funds to pay for reasonably priced housing is noble, taxing individuals who simply need to go on trip shouldn’t be the best way to do it. Households compelled to pay 29% tax could not discover the additional funds out there and both trip much less or under no circumstances. This can even impression the tourism business with fewer guests.
Write your legislators right now and urge them to vote in opposition to SB 584.
Beth Weber-Guarino
San Jose
‘Get comfy with
discomfort’ to open up
Re: “Gen Z teenagers don’t at all times get greatest psychological well being classes” (Web page A7, Might 30).
There may be hope for America when a 17-year-old highschool scholar, Zach Gottlieb, can give you a easy, elegant answer to certainly one of our most persistent issues: our incapacity to speak.
Prepared? “Change into comfy with discomfort.”
At present, the left is demanding set off warnings to allow them to retreat to their secure areas to keep away from any uncomfortable ideas. The correct is banning books and rewriting historical past in order that no White child will ever really feel responsible to seek out that racism actually is deeply embedded in our nation. And, after all, there’s at all times that high-pitched whine from the Mar-a-Lago snowflake.
Toughen up, folks. My buddies and I are from a distinct technology. We have been invited by Uncle Sam to attend 12-week seminars in bodily and verbal abuse referred to as boot camp. We’re not afraid to confront an uncomfortable thought. Deliver again free speech.
Ray Jones
San Jose
Reducing emissions isn’t
sufficient in local weather struggle
Reader Adriel Ceja is correct on (“We should put together for results of local weather change,” Web page A6, June 1).
Reducing greenhouse gases is just a part of the answer. The science says warming will proceed even when we cease all carbon emissions. Any emission positive aspects our state makes can simply be erased by a wildfire or uncooperative U.S. states. Our state’s efforts set an excellent instance and I help them, however we can’t assure they are going to be efficient or catch on in time.
Why not prioritize a few of our sources into native options which might be assured to assist, like water administration to fight drought, levees to fight sea stage rise, forest administration to fight wildfires, not constructing new properties in threatened areas, training, and so forth.? That is the exhausting work. It requires planning, cooperation and instant sacrifice. In a way, focusing solely on eliminating carbon emissions is a copout; it ignores actuality.
Don Jedlovec
Fremont
Calling Feinstein ‘unfit’
is unkind language
Re: “Ballot: Two-thirds say ailing Feinstein is unfit to serve” (Web page A1, Might 26).
I believed your phrase utilization in regard to Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Might 26 was inappropriate, if not offensive, with the headline suggesting she is likely to be “unfit” for workplace.
The phrases “unable” or “too fragile” would have been each kinder and extra acceptable. “Unfit” has destructive, if not immoral connotations.
If the time period have been used within the ballot, I query the survey’s neutrality.
Dave Wolf
San Jose
Debt ceiling deal good
signal for pragmatism
Re: “Senate OKs debt ceiling bundle” (Web page A1, June 2).
So, it’s true — politics does make for unusual bedfellows.
Exhausting to consider when Nancy Pelosi wakened the opposite day that lo and behold there was Kevin McCarthy. Maybe it’s the starting of a budding and promising future for steps towards the center floor. Pragmatism could also be on the rise because the far proper and much left could also be shedding floor to the extra steady and affordable center.
Compromise, which appeared to have been in its dying throes, could also be arising from the ashes from the place it has lain for a lot too lengthy. We will solely hope.
Manny Morales
San Jose
Cease the slaughter;
ban horse racing
One other horse died on a racetrack this week at Belmont, simply days after 12 have been euthanized on the Churchill Downs slaughterhouse.
What number of purposefully misbred animals should undergo earlier than horse racing is outlawed? It’s not like that is some kind of accident or freakish occurring. Horses are bred to have enormous lungs pushed by highly effective hearts and hindquarters on spindly little light-weight legs that break.
Anybody betting on these lovely horses is contributing to their killing.
Robert Wahler
San Jose
