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by hilbertseries 1956 days ago
Even more surprising we tried to repeal prop 13 for just commercial real estate last election and it failed.
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It failed at least in part because of the timing. A global pandemic that was destroying small businesses was a pretty unpopular time for something that is perceived as damaging to small businesses. Maybe when things are booming and prosperous we could pass that.
Perhaps taxes are too high?
There are ways to do revenue neutral tax changes, where you raise one and lower another one somewhere else, at the same time.
Maybe, I'm guessing a prop 13 repeal attached to a corresponding reduction in income tax to make it revenue-neutral would have a better time passing.