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To: DMaA who wrote (451784)	9/2/2003 7:00:42 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

some state did a prop-13 type system but it was done correctly, the limitation was on state spending. If anybody knows that state I'd love to look up this legislation. What we have here in CA, basically sucks. The freeloaders go to the polls and vote to increase services. Of course they pay no property taxes and by law are protected so the state has no recourse but to raise taxes elsewhere, which in the past have been income taxes. Now that the tech gravy train workforce bonanza is over guess what? the state is so broke it can't even construct a budget with the laws what they are. For example, there was a taxpayer referendum requiring that 50% of all tax receipts go to schools. The state is obligated by law to provide a bunch of stuff for the feds, like that no child left behind thing, and then there are the basic services like police/fire. The legislature is stuck with mandates for no taxes and more spending.