{"id":13614,"date":"2011-06-24T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-24T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T18:29:06","slug":"jerry-eversoslyly-hints-at-an-attack-on-prop-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/24\/jerry-eversoslyly-hints-at-an-attack-on-prop-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Ever-so-slyly Hints at An Attack on Prop 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to dig too hard in the Calitics archives to find our disdain for Prop 13. Or for that matter, I doubt many astute observers of politics would be surprised at the position repeated here many times.  However, it has been so sacrosanct for so long, that few have dared to touch it.  Sure, there have been a few haphazard attempts to tweak it, or even “split the rolls” by allowing reassessment of commercial property.  The one that comes to mind first is Phil Ting’s recent Close the Loophole campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But nothing really took off.  We’ve been stuck with Prop 13 for an entire generation with no real signs of movement. It’s strangled our schools, left us with a wildly variable tax base, and led to many a budget crisis over the years.  <\/p>\n

But Jerry Brown understands that it is the third rail. After all, some point the finger to his administration’s slow reaction to the growing anti-tax movement in the 1970s.  And it was Brown who proclaimed himself a “born again tax cutter” after it passed.  So he’s not going to challenge it directly.  But, you know, those mean unions, they aren’t down with the big landlords like he is.  They are really something of a wild card that he can’t really control:<\/p>\n

Gov. Jerry Brown hinted Thursday that if the budget talks with Republicans break down, the initiative fight that would follow would not be limited to Brown’s plans to raise sales, vehicle and income taxes. He said he expects labor groups to pursue changes to Proposition 13, tweaking the current caps on commercial property taxes, if no bipartisan deal can be reached. <\/p>\n

“I would expect there will be efforts to accelerate the reassessment of commercial property tax,” Brown said. (LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, such a campaign would be bloody and expensive.  It certainly won’t be taken up lightly.  That being said, if you want stability, and you want tax equity, Prop 13 is the big target on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to dig too hard in the Calitics archives to find our disdain for Prop 13. Or for that matter, I doubt many astute observers of politics would be surprised at the position repeated here many times.  However, it has been so sacrosanct for so long, that few have dared to touch it.  Sure, there have been a few haphazard attempts to tweak it, or even “split the rolls” by allowing reassessment of commercial property.  The one that comes to mind first is Phil Ting’s recent Close the Loophole campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But nothing really took off.  We’ve been stuck with Prop 13 for an entire generation with no real signs of movement. It’s strangled our schools, left us with a wildly variable tax base, and led to many a budget crisis over the years.  <\/p>\n

But Jerry Brown understands that it is the third rail. After all, some point the finger to his administration’s slow reaction to the growing anti-tax movement in the 1970s.  And it was Brown who proclaimed himself a “born again tax cutter” after it passed.  So he’s not going to challenge it directly.  But, you know, those mean unions, they aren’t down with the big landlords like he is.  They are really something of a wild card that he can’t really control:<\/p>\n

Gov. Jerry Brown hinted Thursday that if the budget talks with Republicans break down, the initiative fight that would follow would not be limited to Brown’s plans to raise sales, vehicle and income taxes. He said he expects labor groups to pursue changes to Proposition 13, tweaking the current caps on commercial property taxes, if no bipartisan deal can be reached. <\/p>\n

“I would expect there will be efforts to accelerate the reassessment of commercial property tax,” Brown said. (LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, such a campaign would be bloody and expensive.  It certainly won’t be taken up lightly.  That being said, if you want stability, and you want tax equity, Prop 13 is the big target on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,204],"tags":[754],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","category-204","tag-754"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3xA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}