A Home Sale Tax? We Must Stop This Now.
- Media
- Apr 28
- 2 min read
I’ll cut to the chase—one of my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors is pushing a new home sale tax on San Diegans. It’s exactly as bad as it sounds.
Under this proposal, the County would apply a real estate transfer fee—a new tax—every time you sell your home. I believe this is an outrageous and harmful idea, especially for seniors, working families, and longtime homeowners who have spent decades building equity in their homes.
For most people, their home is their nest egg. It’s their retirement plan. It’s how they’ve built generational wealth. To punish someone for selling their home—often to downsize, retire, or help their family—is not just wrong, it’s dangerous public policy.
We’re already living in one of the most expensive regions in the country. Between high property taxes, fire insurance hikes, utility bills, and skyrocketing housing costs, Californians are being stretched to the brink. Now, some politicians want to dip their hand into the little financial security people have left? Enough is enough.
Let me be clear: I oppose this new tax. I’ll fight it every step of the way.
We should be protecting our seniors and homeowners—not punishing them with new fees and bureaucratic cash grabs. Our focus should be on lowering costs and giving people the ability to stay in the communities they love—not driving them out of San Diego County.
This kind of thinking is exactly why people are leaving California. And it’s why I’m standing up—to stop these extreme ideas and restore common sense.
Thank you for continuing to stand with me. Together, we can push back.
By San Diego County District 5 Supervisor Jim Desmond | April 25, 2025
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ex-Supervisor Chair Nora Vargas got us into a world of hurt when she proposed a vote making San Diego County a super-sanctuary county. The feds didn't appreciate it and cut all our funds.
Our pro-tem Supervisor Chair Terra Lawson-Remer has proposed three different "solutions" to get SDCounty out of debt . . . all three involved bleeding it out of the taxpayers. Her latest proposal, if voted in, would tax us with a new tax every time we sell our homes.
We need to turn this ship around and chart a new course or we could end up like the Titanic.
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