California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is hawking progressive ideas. Increase corporate taxes, lower utility rates, ban corporate PACs, all could be just the start if he can find the limelight.
Thank you Tom for taking on the Prop 13 loophole for commercial property. You need to push that in debate with your fellow candidates. Where the rubber meets the road in the governor's race is the tax issue, and it will be the one issue that will define the differences in the candidates.
Great interview! I’m a huge fan of Tom Steyer, and I appreciated the questions you asked. Helped me better understand the challenges and finance in California.
Steyer's got you two punks fooled. He's a salesman, not a progressive. Nothing he touted is true or possible. Start with the Blackstone Ponzi scheme in housing controlling housing. Build more, they buy more. Building costs go up (not down) so rents will never go down. Also, even more importantly, something you never point out, is that ALL landlords are monopolists. Just as Steyer pointed out: they don't have to meet in a room to set rents, they just have to look next door. Get that into your DNA. Rent is not a competitive sport; it's about controlling a life's necessity by forcing whatever the buyer can bear in any region. Paycheck to paycheck. Buyer's have no options if they want their work commute to be halfway sane. Most in this country are renters.
Electrical costs can only be public for the same reasons; public necessity that holds you over a barrel if the provider is private with obligations to investors. California is a lesson in crime with a public utility with "Sharholders". Whoever got that law passed gets a Nobel Prize for Evil. But then again we're dealing with California politicians so no surprises there.
Truly public utilities have no obligations for profit and that's as low cost as it gets. Just keep the corrupt public officials out because just by looking at the simple numbers you know the private owners are always stealing from you to maintain their investors AND themselves. Must be nice.
Now THAT all sounds progressive.
Now do you see how deceitful he was?
So wake up and try again, boys. Thinking oligarchs will save you is childish nonsense.
Thank you Tom for taking on the Prop 13 loophole for commercial property. You need to push that in debate with your fellow candidates. Where the rubber meets the road in the governor's race is the tax issue, and it will be the one issue that will define the differences in the candidates.
So help me goddess I will go out in a blaze of glory before I ever vote again to put a billionaire in charge.
They're in charge no matter who we vote for.
Great interview! I’m a huge fan of Tom Steyer, and I appreciated the questions you asked. Helped me better understand the challenges and finance in California.
Steyer's got you two punks fooled. He's a salesman, not a progressive. Nothing he touted is true or possible. Start with the Blackstone Ponzi scheme in housing controlling housing. Build more, they buy more. Building costs go up (not down) so rents will never go down. Also, even more importantly, something you never point out, is that ALL landlords are monopolists. Just as Steyer pointed out: they don't have to meet in a room to set rents, they just have to look next door. Get that into your DNA. Rent is not a competitive sport; it's about controlling a life's necessity by forcing whatever the buyer can bear in any region. Paycheck to paycheck. Buyer's have no options if they want their work commute to be halfway sane. Most in this country are renters.
Electrical costs can only be public for the same reasons; public necessity that holds you over a barrel if the provider is private with obligations to investors. California is a lesson in crime with a public utility with "Sharholders". Whoever got that law passed gets a Nobel Prize for Evil. But then again we're dealing with California politicians so no surprises there.
Truly public utilities have no obligations for profit and that's as low cost as it gets. Just keep the corrupt public officials out because just by looking at the simple numbers you know the private owners are always stealing from you to maintain their investors AND themselves. Must be nice.
Now THAT all sounds progressive.
Now do you see how deceitful he was?
So wake up and try again, boys. Thinking oligarchs will save you is childish nonsense.