How To Fix Proposition 13
- William Fulton
- Jun 26, 2018
- 5 min read
It’s been 40 years since the voters of California passed Proposition 13 – so long that hardly anybody who hasn’t reach retirement age remembers what life was like before the property-tax cap became the law of the state. It’s tempting simply to accept Prop. 13 as a typically oddball quirk in California governance – but it’s also important to remember the way in which it has distorted how California is run and financed and what some of the long-time effects have been.
