I think California was growing rapidly in the 1950’s and 1960’s, thus tax collections were expanding rapidly and expenditures for infrastructure were also expanding as a result. Student K-12 enrollment peaked in 1968-69 as I recall, so I presume the big boom in California started to slow in the 1970’s. Prop 13 was not and is not the cause of infrastructure decline. That is due to low prioritization of infrastructure maintenance relative to other “needs”(infrastructure doesn’t lobby politicians for maintenance dollars and does not vote).
As regards the air, I do not know how much it cost all of us, and will continue to cost us, for the cleaner air in LA but I am comfortable paying it. I do have concerns about going much further with air improvements … e.g. the bans on small engines in Central Valley farming lands. I do support requiring locomotives to shutdown if parked for more than an hour…no idling all night. Same with big trucks. It seems like some of the solutions for a 1% improvement in air quality are going to cost way to much.

I did read the entire statement and agree with it, except for the mis-spelling of Democrat. God bless Prop 13. As regards the split roll idea, I can’t support it because that will remove businesses from the pro-13 coalition and then we will eventually lose 13. I don’t like the current arrangement vis-à-vis transfer of commercial property at old rates by including an old owner in the new company(thus reducing the overall ratio of commercial to total prop tax collections in the past 40 years) I will tolerate that to keep the Prop 13 coalition intact.

Also, the public pension spiking nonsense has to stop! We, the taxpaying people, will have to pay for this eventually…unless the State and local governments can declare bankruptcy…local governments can but not the State. Perhaps the People’s Republic of California will get a loan from Uncle Sam, who gets its money from the People’s Republic of China. When California eventually goes to the feds for a loan, I hope the other 49 States say no!

Here’s a better link:

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/3300/

Well said jBRO!
Skippingdog’s name should be SlumDog! Because that is what he is promoting for everyone! The reason he is “Skipping” is probably because he benefits from excess taxes! A fricking IDIOT and EXTORTIONIST!

Your multiple claims simply don’t add up. Even in San Mateo County, there wouldn’t have been very many people making $200k salaries, outside of the CAO and possibly a few others. If your salary as the Chauncy Gardner of San Mateo County was the equivalent of someone with a MSW in Social Services, it more likely indicates that they were being underpaid for their education.

Very little of your post passes the smell test. It’s far more likely you’re just another paid troll working for one of the Astroturf tea party groups or HJTA. Don’t try to peddle your nonsense here.

If you lived in California before Proposition 13, it was a much different and better place. The declines in infrastructure, schools, etc. all began after Prop 13 was implemented, primarily to benefit commercial property interests.

Your claims to have been a public employee are suspicious, at best. While human nature is the same in both public and private employment spheres, the claims of vast waste and incompetence in public agencies are cartoonish exaggerations drawn from generally isolated instances of malfeasance.

The most restrictive environmental regulations in California were passed by the people’s initiative process after the Santa Barbara oil spill and LA basin air quality that used to make people’s lungs ache when they took a breath. Most public agencies are self-insured for liability coverage, and participate in a catastrophic loss pool for large judgements that may come their way, so you clearly don’t have much grasp on that topic either. Health insurance policies have risen in cost for both public and private agencies over the past two or three decades, paralleling the growth of high-tech medicine to treat ailments that would have been life threatening or life altering in previous years. Health insurance rates are also set and charged by private companies.

Hey SkipDog, thanks for links. The first one confirms our suspicions that the CA budget for education is bloated, since we are near the top for money spent, but not so much per pupil. Translation: Top heavy “administrators”, teacher pensions, and other bureaucratic waste, fraud, and abuse, courtesy of Sacramento Dems. Thanks, CTA.
Regarding the other links, the Duke law link URL is wrong. The last link is some hack work from Evolve, an anti-Prop 13 organization backed by more of your friends who want to keep the state dollars rolling into their own organizations. Keep ’em coming, though.

As mentioned already, rising property values mean nothing to Grandma if she doesn’t want to sell her house. In the meantime, her property taxes shot up. So yes, people lost their homes due to property tax increases before Prop 13, despite your rather weak attempt at revising history, troll.