Although the Independent Bloghorn hasn’t been kind to the state of California, this doesn’t mean I don’t sympathize with Californians.  However, I can’t sympathize with the government of California.  Since the Independent Bloghorn attracts a lot of Californian readers, I am going to do you all a favor and let you know how you can all lower your taxes.  Despite all of the maneuvering of Californian politicians to balance the state’s ridiculous budget, California’s balance sheet would be screwed if a massive majority of Californians participated in the tax reduction strategy I am going to tell you about.  I know I can never mobilize an ideological movement in California to reverse the state’s brain-dead lurch to the left.  However, I can mobilize a movement where average Californians, in their own self-interest, will seek to lower their tax burden.  This is the kind of activism that independents and conservatives need to be advancing with zeal.

Alright, I’m done with the soapbox.  If you live in California, you need to visit this website: Shrink Your Property Taxes.

Once again that was Shrink Your Property Taxes

This is a website that I helped a friend of mine build.  His name is Chris, and he has helped quite a few people lower their property tax burden by hundreds of dollars a year.  On his site, you can give him an email address and he will send you free instructions of how you can do this yourself.  Or, for a reasonable fee, he will do the paperwork and file everything with the government for you.  Most residents will save more in one month than what he is charging for the fee.  All you need to know about this program is published on his site.

The media has been doing a good job of fueling public outrage against corporate executives and wealthy people for their role in the current economic crisis.  Of course public outrage towards politicians has either gone unreported or simply hasn’t happened.  Perhaps the best thing we can do to stick it to our stupid leaders is to take whatever action we can to reduce our tax burden.  Californians have a golden opportunity to do this en masse.  Because of significant declines in housing prices, most Californians are overpaying on their property taxes.  Politicians are counting on you to be stupid and keep paying.  Visit my friends site, and learn how you can reassess your property value and lower your tax burden.

If you live in California, make sure to spread the word about this.  Anyone can republish any portion of the content in this post on their blog or website as long as you include attribution to The Independent Bloghorn.  

The following quote from John Adams is to motivate everyone to take their ownership of property a little more seriously,  (I apologize in advance to anyone who might be offended that he actually suggests that the Ten Commandments should influence public policy, because haven’t we all been thoroughly brainwashed to know that founders intended there to be a separation of church and state?):

Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “Thou shalt not covet,” and “Thou shalt not steal,” were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.