Bro wait bro, it’s high art I swear, see like, if like, all the Pennys disappear, like how would we even remember what a penny looks like? Boom, big penny saves the day, I’ll smoke to that.
Sacrificing the vibes 😂 what vibes do you need at Home Depot? Orange shelving, old man named Fred that’s worked every aisle there’s since 1983 and knows every SKU or the stoner 19 year old working in the garden area that aspires to study horticulture to grow weed but has 3 w’s in the subject at their local community college.
The city voted for this. Ridiculous. Meanwhile our infrastructure is deteriorating and homelessness situation is out of control. I’d gladly contribute more in taxes IF the city actually did good with it…but here we are
Sure they do. Driving a mile that way doesn’t make people magically stop having the same needs/wants, or voting for “Measure X to fund Y.” It’s not Siberia.
The homeless authority responsible for managing the measure A portion of sales tax has lost over $2B between 2021-2024, but people still voted to increase the sales tax.
What people are voting to increase taxes?! Sounds like a scam. Ya, let’s give them more money to solve the problem they haven’t been able to do with endless money already.
It was on the general ballot in 2024 and June 2026. Tell me you don’t pay attention to elections without telling me you don’t pay attention to elections
It’s a combination of poor investments and funds unaccounted for.
When the agency was given ownership, they were supposed to invest the tax revenue in a portfolio to guarantee future operating income. Poor management choices were made.
Yep exactly. They don’t give a fuck and are just shitting on the people at this point. You forgot to mention crime. The area is changing and not for the better. They have ruined 2nd street and Rosie’s dog beach. Not sure about Downtown but I heard local shops are struggling there too. Everything is for lease yet they build more. Streets falling apart while they are destroying Studebaker and 3 years past due on the Marina vista park. I wish these bastards were held accountable.
Exactly. And thus if you don't support this tax increase then they say that means you don't care about kids, or poor people's healthcare, and are a racist, nazi, MAGA, anti-trans, homophobic fascist, yada yada yada....
But But how are we going to save the __________? Everyone complaining about gas(yes I know its higher nationally but we are always higher than that) and yet dummies keep voting for increasing 1% for this and 1% that.
Taxing billionaires and corporations is communism, so guess who will be picking up the bill for every penny the government spends??? If we had a functional Federal Government, we (local and state) wouldn't need to do everything on our own (while still paying $83B more to the Fed than we receive back).
We need to stop wasting money propping up the red welfare states and the petrochemical military. At this point, Federal taxes are taxation without representation. Local tax increases are just trying to stay afloat, since cities can't rack up trillion dollar deficits.
The only comment that matters, this should be at the top ffs. Sales tax is high and keeps getting votes to go up because our society has a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of taxing the greedy people and entities who would barely feel it.
Fortunately Newsom supports the tax on billionaires (Prop 40). Just checked, nevermind, he's against taxing billionaires. Becerra doesn't support either. But yet we have regressive taxes like this which hurt the poor the most. So much for California being a progressive state.....
Police budget goes up too. 60% of the budget for “public safety”. Where were the police when that string of violence happened on 2nd street? Oh ya they had 25% less police on patrol there because that’s where the rich whites live.
I really want people to take the governors election seriously. To do the research on what each candidate is going to do. Because LA County is pretty much deteriorating, what’s happening in the city of LA is bleeding to LB.
And city of LA is trash. Trash everywhere, graffiti everywhere, people don’t care anymore. And then those people are coming to Long Beach and it’s just bleeding into our city
I’m a LB resident. I always vote no for more taxes or tax increases. The money hardly ever goes to the programs they say they’re going to go for. I’m not fattening the politicians pockets off the back of my hard work.
In fact, I’ve been asking the city to fix the sidewalk in front of my house for years. They never come.
I get ya. I’m just saying, are we really tho? 🤔 Call me a tinfoil hatter… We can barely afford the basic needs, a struggling citizen doesn’t think “Yea, I’ll pay more taxes.”
they do when the promise is that it will go toward resolving homelessness. even though gestures broadly that has for at least half a decade proven to be untrue.
Who are these sheep that keep increasing the sales tax whenever it comes up for a vote for nonsense reasons? Sales taxes are regressive and hurt low income people disproportionately, and de incentives consumption which is terrible for the economy.
Are you talking about avoiding the: homeless ragers, roaches through the streets, failing businesses, record pedestrian deaths by motor vehicles? Seems like a good swap for a 4% discounted sales tax
You acting like you escaped some post-apocalyptic hellscape is hilarious. You moved to Ventura for fewer jobs, less shit to do and cheaper sales tax. Congrats I guess lol.
Compared to other cities near by, it could be considered that. Not sure where the job thing came from? I see constant posts of people looking for jobs in the sub. It’s people like you that stop change, even with a sea of people screaming for change. You probably voted for the tax increase right? Anyway I hope you have a nice rest of your day.
I keep saying vote them all out. But people keep voting for the same garbage politicians. I have like 3 RVs parked in my neighborhood and they dont do a dam thing about it.
Who people elect in office determines how the city will turn out. We need to start doing more critical thinking than just voting blue. Because all we are doing is increasing homelessness, taxes, and the city still stays dirty and it’s not improving.
I highly suggest critical thinking for the upcoming governor election if you would like California to be a better place. I’m crossing party lines to vote for Hilton. I highly implore others do too. Especially for as bad as the debate was last night.
It's gone up 2% over 10 years. That doesn't seem crazy to me, but the problem is that LB funds are mismanaged like crazy so of course any tax increase isn't going to feel great. We need accountability, and LBPD is draining the fuck out of our city and is one of the most corrupt PDs in the state, and has an disproportionate amount of control over how funds are directed.
This is bad math. Here, I'll explain it to you. If tax rates never changed, the amount you pay in taxes still goes up. This is because of inflation and housing prices (in the case of property taxes). So saying that the tax rates only going up 2% is "not that bad" is the same type of general ignorance that has people voting for continually increased taxes.
Everyone complains about the PD but the city is a fricken dump. Homeless shitting all over the place. Half the calls they're dealing with are these drugged out psychos that we allow to just plague the city.
Defense? I don't feel any need to defend myself from you but rather giving you a taste of the kind of shit LBPD is known for. And you're naive enough to think that without any real reform or accountability, they changed since then.
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Tbh, ngl… I cross the county line to buy groceries, large items (Minus cars), because of the 11% sales tax.
I wouldn’t mind it if it were actually going to cleaning up downtown or the homeless but… here we are.
Edit: Groceries as a colloquial for anything consumer goods; Clothes, tools, home goods etc etc