Proposition 13 will become a target for those who support more revenue because of the continuing state budget deficit. Frankly, Prop 13 has been a target since it passed in 1978 and while it will continue to be a target, its steady popularity means it will be difficult or impossible to change.
Last June, I was asked to give the keynote speech at an all day UC Berkeley conference on Proposition 13, commemorating the proposition’s 30th anniversary.
All speakers that day contributed their work to a book now published by the Berkeley Public Policy Press. Titled, “After the Tax Revolt: California’s Proposition 13 Turns 30,” the book is edited by professors Jack Citrin of UC Berkeley and Isaac William Martin of UC San Diego. The book contains essays from varying perspectives on Proposition 13. Copies of the book can be attained here.
Berkeley’s online California Journal of Politics and Policy published individual essays from the book. My essay is titled, “Proposition 13 Thirty Years After the Revolution: What Would Howard Jarvis Say?”
You can access the essay by clicking here.
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