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The Untold Story Behind California's Scapegoat: An Analysis Of Proposition 13, Corinne Williams
The Untold Story Behind California's Scapegoat: An Analysis Of Proposition 13, Corinne Williams
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The California experience previous to the passage of Proposition 13 taught the citizens of California that even with representation, the freedoms of individuals could be threatened. This lesson is especially true when we see the assessment scandals, a rapidly increasing real estate market and the failure of California’s representative officials to respond to the threat to individual liberty. In addition to watching corrupt tax assessors take advantage of the system, individuals were tired of paying inflated property taxes that were changing drastically from year to year. People’s homes were literally being taken from them by the power of the tax …