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California’s General Taxes Now Read Like Special Taxes
An earmarked local tax needs two-thirds of the vote; an unrestricted one needs a majority. So general-tax ballot questions have come to read like earmarks.
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RSS- Renters
The Culver City Rental Registry and Prop 13
More evidence that Prop 13 does not help renters, from rents that Culver City landlords report to the city.
- Equity
Prop 13 illegally favors white neighborhoods
Because Prop 13 is passed down through bloodlines, white neighborhoods get larger tax cuts.
- History
Howard Jarvis bestof
Fun quotes and mishaps from the worst person to ever move to California.
- Seniors
The California Tax Postponement Program, not Prop 13, Protects Grandma
Seniors who can’t keep up with property taxes have been able to defer them since 1977, a year before Prop 13 passed.
- Renters
Prop 13 Is Not Passed On to Renters
Prop 13 was sold to renters as a way to keep rents low. Rental ads matched to tax records show long-held, low-tax homes rent for as much as recently bought ones.
Further reading
See all →Court opinions, LAO reports, and academic papers on Prop 13, from Justice Stevens’s dissent inNordlinger v. Hahn to Exclusionary Taxation. The reading list.