Nice try, Prop 13 was in 1978. up until about 2000 Cali was the nations most prosperous state, and then Leftist Democrats took firm control. your assertion and sources are garbage.
Wrong, by 2000 California was trying to sell off state owned buildings and properties, firing law enforcement, closing facilities and considering cutting back school days because the state didn't have enough tax revenue to operate.
That's why they were edging towards bankruptcy. California WAS in the same situation Sam Brownback's KANSAS is in now.
Once the Democrats took over - - which happened because they WERE VOTED IN, by the way, California began to go back into the black again.
It has nothing to do with how prosperous the state is, it has to do with whether the state itself had sufficient revenue to operate, in spite of private wealth. A state can be filled with prosperous citizens but if their state coffers are bone dry, you wind up with a lot of wealthy people, but roads with potholes, schools with no textbooks or enough teachers, police departments operating on skeleton crew and essential services cut to the core.
Proposition 13 was a radical salvo at property tax revenues.
And by the way, it also decimated the residential construction industry because millions of people didn't dare do any remodeling for fear of being pushed out of the Prop 13 bracket, so residential construction plummeted. Prop 13 side effect: a JOB KILLER.
Another side effect, hundreds of thousands of homes which steadily became so out of code that they were becoming unsafe.
An old girlfriend who wound up marrying an entertainment director at a well known L.A. celebrity venue inherited his mother's sumptuous mansion in the West Adams District in downtown L.A.
The 1906 home was originally built for one of the early former CEO's of General Motors, but by the time his mother got it, Prop 13 had made it impossible for her to modernize, thus when my former GF wound up in it, her and her new hubby discovered that half of the mansion still had ancient knob and tube wiring in the attic and 10 amp two blade non-polarized service outlets.
She had begun to modernize the home but decided to halt the job halfway through.
It was almost impossible to make a piece of toast, run a vacuum cleaner, a coffeepot or dry your hair in that half of the house, because anything more imposing than a table radio or an electric light or a small TV would blow the ancient glass fuses.
And they lived in fear of the crumbling cloth covered wires sparking a fire because every so often they would discover another ceramic insulator had given up the ghost by virtue of the rusty nail holding in place working itself loose.
