{"id":351208,"date":"2025-11-02T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351208\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:04:16","slug":"vacation-home-proposal-latest-example-of-citys-tax-first-mindset-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351208\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation-home proposal latest example of city\u2019s tax-first mindset \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cEconometer: Should San Diego pursue a vacation-home tax ballot measure?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/10\/31\/should-san-diego-pursue-a-vacation-home-tax-ballot-measure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 31<\/a>):\u00a0 Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera\u2019s idea to layer on another tax on properties owned as second homes or vacation rentals should be DOA. Although it is of a piece with this council\u2019s lazy approach to policy, where the solution to every problem is more taxes, there is a better way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Second homes are actually good for the local economy. They pay full taxes, supporting our schools, road maintenance, parks and so forth, but they hardly use city services at all. Instead of turning off this flow of free money, how about the city simply earmarks existing taxes on these properties to create an affordable housing fund? Win-win, no?<\/p>\n<p>If, even in a good economy, this council cannot balance the budget, most of us would know what to do: if we can\u2019t get more income, we reduce expenses. Just like momma taught us. We make hard choices.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Don Billings, Rancho Santa Fe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cEconometer: Should San Diego pursue a vacation-home tax ballot measure?\u201d (Oct. 31):\u00a0 Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera\u2019s idea to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":345603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-351208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115482372710261052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}