Showing posts with label California voters' reluctance to pay higher taxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California voters' reluctance to pay higher taxes. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Marc Cooper on results of the Tuesday CA proposition votes.

I don't know if I agree with everything Marc Cooper says in his post-mortem about Tuesday's pass-the-budget-problem-solving-to-the-voters proposition 1A-1E defeats (excepting the Yes vote on denying legislature payraises in bad economic times), but he makes a valid point that the state's voters need to deep-six their selfishness and roll back Howard Jarvis' property-tax relief Proposition 13 from the late 1970s: http://marccooper.com/arnold-flubbin-california-shruggin/

To roll back some or all of Prop 13 is vital considering the effects of the recession on schools and other public services.