Why California Should Tax Country Clubs

Like Malcom Gladwell I also hate golf and he has increased my hate of golf. It is the least productive thing rich people can do. What Malcom explained from the amount of money and the number of rounds they play is ridiculous. The fact that our president spent the first four months in office flying and playing golf three times a week is a waste of time and money using Air force 1. The principle and tax law of called highest and best use widened the reality of how much land would have been taxed when it came to the golf courses they used. In California, the country clubs got together in 1960 and wanted a constitutional exemption from property taxes because of Bob Hope. If you own a property in California and you have lived there since 1970 you don’t have to pay and increase in taxes if your property goes up because of the California constitution law in law 13 called proposition 13. Just like Malcom Gladwell I think that is insane. This is especially good for people who own country clubs in LA. They continue to exist because they supposedly have not changed hands. I also believe that Gladwell provided a good point when they talked about if the owners die isn’t that a change of hand. They went to the city’s lawyers and after 6 months on June 2, 2010. They concluded that no they do not change hands. He talked about Theseus changing every single plank on a ship so it becomes a new ship or an old theory. He argued that it was the same ship because he left the same dock. He talked about spatial temporal continuity theory which says an object can maintain its identity so long its change is gradual and the object maintains its form is preserved the changes of its component materials. The country clubs used this theory by saying the rich white guys that keep getting replaced they possess spatial temporal continuity. What this says about the golf course is that they are taking advantage of proposition 13. They talked about how much taxes all of the country clubs combine would of have to of paid. They came to the conclusion that since they spent 9 billion on the country clubs and only spent 200,000 that they would have to pay back 89,800,000 in taxes. What this says about the country clubs power is that they have been finessing the system since 1970.