David, the most powerful interests often acted as if they were speaking for the middle class, but that was pure pretense. You are absolutely correct that there were inequities in the property tax, but Proposition 13 was a meat ax aimed at the entire fiscal system.
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:55:55AM -0700, David B. Shemano wrote: > > My father, a barber who never went to college and die hard Roosevelt democrat > who would never vote Republican, was a strong Prop 13 supporter. The > inflation of the 70s caused assessments to skyrocket, which meant that people > like my father, who had no cash but paper capital gains on their house, were > in real danger of losing the house. I was 13 years old at the time, and > remember the debates well, which I would characterize as a class war between > the middle class private sector taxpayers and the middle class public > employees. > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
