How Right-Wing Anti-Tax Crusaders Ruined California Every time corporate regulations are removed, disasters follow: gutted education, cuts to emergency services and recession. So why would anyone call for "small government"?
Throughout the mid-‘70s, California land values soared, which raised property taxes. The steep increases created hardship, particularly for elderly homeowners on fixed incomes, and anger, as the state sat on a surplus of $5 billion by 1978.
Up stepped Howard Jarvis, a retired entrepreneur and former Republican political candidate. Jarvis, who had lobbied the state legislature on behalf of fat cat Los Angeles landlords (to oppose rent control for the hoi polloi), joined Paul Gann, a Realtor, to come up with Proposition 13. 13 was an extreme response to a legitimate problem -- a ballot measure that limited annual property tax increases to 2%,which guaranteed drastic reductions in state revenues.
Backed by the organizational and financial muscle of real estate interests certain to reap tremendous financial benefits from the measure, Jarvis manipulated the cynicism toward government borne by Vietnam and Watergate, and masqueraded as a man of the people, even cleverly titling 13 “The People’s Initiative to Limit Property Taxation.”
And now similar conservatives in Colorado want to do the same to Colorado as the "stop taxes" conservatives did to California. Colorado will hurt just as badly when the revenues drop and the services disappear. And the conservatives will complain just as much when the roads don't get repaired, the schools tank, thier property values fall, and their kids have to pay megabucks to get into state schools......
Exactly.... The tax-rollback/stop-tax amendments and propositions are designed to do the same thing, and Colorado will pay the price... California is the shining example of what happens when you pull the rug out.
How Right-Wing Anti-Tax Crusaders Ruined California Every time corporate regulations are removed, disasters follow: gutted education, cuts to emergency services and recession. So why would anyone call for "small government"?
Throughout the mid-‘70s, California land values soared, which raised property taxes. The steep increases created hardship, particularly for elderly homeowners on fixed incomes, and anger, as the state sat on a surplus of $5 billion by 1978.
Up stepped Howard Jarvis, a retired entrepreneur and former Republican political candidate. Jarvis, who had lobbied the state legislature on behalf of fat cat Los Angeles landlords (to oppose rent control for the hoi polloi), joined Paul Gann, a Realtor, to come up with Proposition 13. 13 was an extreme response to a legitimate problem -- a ballot measure that limited annual property tax increases to 2%,which guaranteed drastic reductions in state revenues.
Backed by the organizational and financial muscle of real estate interests certain to reap tremendous financial benefits from the measure, Jarvis manipulated the cynicism toward government borne by Vietnam and Watergate, and masqueraded as a man of the people, even cleverly titling 13 “The People’s Initiative to Limit Property Taxation.”
Prop 13 has saved thousands of dollars in property taxes for your baby boomer generation. There are tons of 60+ retirees who couldn't afford the taxes in California if Prop 13 was rolled back. But then again, it was voter approved...something liberals can't stand (makes me wonder why they didn't have some liberal judge roll it back?).
If it was so bad why didn't the CITIZENS of CALIFORNIA repeal it? Again, liberals think they know better than everyone else.
The problem with California is hardly 13...it's the illegal immigration and liberal social programs.
