When I think about the community we live in, I assume that EVERYONE in Santa Clarita, regardless of political affiliation, wants a clean, safe, affordable and prosperous state.

With this assumption in mind, it is a head scratcher to me how anyone can support the Democratic policies being advanced in Sacramento by the Democratic supermajority.

From the looks of things, it appears Sacramento lawmakers want us all to leave this state for greener pastures, as evidenced by the bills they were supposed to vote on this week to further bleed hard-working constituents and business owners to death.

Here is how they want to take more of our paycheck:

• PROPERTY TAX (9 bills): Democrats have introduced nine separate bills that would increase your property tax in some way, with the worst being a costly property transfer tax that would give state and local government 5% of the value of every home sold — on top of the capital gains tax. Yep, you read that right. You will be required to make a forced offering of 5% of your money to the government because they said so. Worse, Democrats are working with labor union bosses to put a repeal of Proposition 13 on the ballot in 2026. So guess what —........

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