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    OC Line: Mello-Roos, OC’s Favorite Tax

    The new community of Rancho Mission Viejo is under construction right now, but potential buyers got a rude surprise when it was announced that homes there will be subject to…

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    By Avishay Artsy • Apr 9, 2013 • 1 min read

    It doesn’t matter: the development will sell out within seconds. Is the good life in OC such that Orange County residents — famously anti-tax — tolerate a tax on a tax? Or is it just penance those who want to live in new communities must pay?

    KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis speaks with Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly.

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      Avishay Artsy

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