SACRAMENTO – This week, Assemblyman Dante Acosta (R-Santa Clarita) presented a resolution to renew the legislature’s commitment to protect Proposition 13 and to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of voters enacting it into law. The resolution failed passage along a party-line vote.
“It’s unbelievable to me that we are not able to come together to reaffirm our support of a proposition that protects California’s homeowners and allows people to stay in their homes,” Acosta said. “Prop. 13 protects veterans, seniors on fixed incomes and all residents of this state who already struggle to afford the historically high cost of living.
“Today, 65 percent of California voters are in support of Proposition 13,” he said. “Protecting our most vulnerable constituents from undue tax burdens should be a concept that transcends party lines. Partisan politics is making it increasingly difficult to be solutions-oriented in Sacramento.”
Acosta said Proposition 13 is the only entity keeping property taxes affordable in California.
“Without that protection, taxpayers’ costs will skyrocket and for many, the dream of owning a home will be lost forever,” he said. “As California already has some of the highest taxes in the nation, it is imperative these protections are kept in place.”
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Only 65% of voters are in favor of prop 13? Did i read that righ? Wtf??
The reason the resolution didn’t pass is because the majority of our legislators in Sacramento, as Governor Brown called us in an earlier speech are “Deadbeats” who are not paying our fair share in Taxes!!! They want Prop 13 gone so that they can tax us even more than we pay now !!!!
The whole point was for it to fail.
Loss of prop 13 tax protection is our trigger to activate the in-place plan to leave CA with about five of our friends – and following a number of other friends who have already left CA and are confirming that retirement funds will last many years (decades?) longer in other states.