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To: tejek who wrote (574156)	6/28/2010 3:52:50 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574610

I checked and Prop 13 was passed in 1978 - amazing that 32 yrs later liberals are still blaming things on it .... even ones who didn't live there then .... and perhaps weren't even born yet. With Prop 13 passed, conservatives rode the housing boom that ensued after its passage and then cashed in their chips and moved to other states like AZ. Yeah, mean old conservatives who move to mean states like AZ are so bad .... as opposed to liberals who cash in their chips and move to progressive liberal states. Heh.

To: tejek who wrote (574156)	6/28/2010 4:13:44 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574610

It has little to do with liberalism but all to do with conservatism.....more specifically Prop. 13. That law was passed when CA was still a conservative state. With Prop 13 passed, conservatives rode the housing boom that ensued after its passage Gov. Jerry Brown was in the middle of his eight-year administration when Prop 13 passed. The housing boom had already been going on for twenty years or more. The state legislature had failed to enact any sort of property tax reform for many years, so as often happens in California, a special interest group got their version on the ballot. It passed by around 65-35. I voted against it because it made sense to me that more school funding ought to come from the progressive state income tax rather than local property taxes which were relatively high in poor areas with poor schools and low in wealthy areas with great schools.