This sounds like it’s a personal property tax instead of real estate tax.

Some states tax personal property such as cars, boats, trailers, planes, and RVs as property, with an annual assessment based on the value of the property, just like real estate. In many cases, agricultural property such as crops and livestock is included, not just the trucks, tractors, and combines. For businesses, most “business equipment” is included, such as computers, mills, etc.

This bill sounds like it will exempt the rockets, engines, and assorted components from this assessment.

Muratsuchi said he submitted his measure after Los Angeles County presented Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, with a property tax bill on rockets and other equipment.

The politician is claiming that the tax is on the rockets. Rockets are not buildings. I do not know how reliable his statements are but they do suggest something is very wrong.

“LEO is not in California (and the rockets were launched from Florida).”

SpaceX builds in California, and the tax being discussed was the property tax on their buildings. Try to keep up.

In terms of the Anglosphere origins, there are four main strains: Puritans, Quakers, Cavaliers, and Scots Irish. David Hackett Fischer chronicles this in great detail in Albion’s Seed.

There was an interesting article, Up in Arms, from the Tufts’s University website:

“The original North American colonies were settled by people from distinct regions of the British Isles—and from France, the Netherlands, and Spain—each with its own religious, political, and ethnographic traits. For generations, these Euro-American cultures developed in isolation from one another, consolidating their cherished religious and political principles and fundamental values, and expanding across the eastern half of the continent in nearly exclusive settlement bands. Throughout the colonial period and the Early Republic, they saw themselves as competitors—for land, capital, and other settlers”

The Author puts forward that there are actually eleven Americas based on the region the people who settled there were from. A very interesting read but also goes a long way in understanding why some states have different laws, including tax laws.