“If your goal is to make California governable again by restoring fiscal sanity and political accountability, there’s no way to avoid Prop. 13,” Mark Paul, senior scholar and deputy director of the California program at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, wrote recently. “The 1978 Jarvis-Gann measure is not just a property tax limitation. It’s the hack that rewrote California’s operating system in ways that make it unworkable and unloved across the political spectrum.”

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