When taxation is decided at the state level, then everything else will ultimately be decided at the state level.
People wanted security over freedom. Security that their property taxes would not rise too fast no matter where they lived in CA, rather than the freedom to move to cities where the taxes were lower.
We were sold a bill of goods by Jarvis and we took the bait hook, line, and sinker.
While I understand what you are saying and agree with it in principle, people who have multigenerational investments in land don't just pick up and move. In our county, property taxes were at 8.5%. I want you to imagine an $85,000 tax bill every year. It was robbery. Of course, all property taxes are robbery in principle.
The damage that Proposition 13 really did is that it made it tolerable to allow Democrats to remain in power.
Wow...I thought I was one of the few conservatives that saw Prop 13, as noble as it may have been, to be the antithesis of conservatism.
In a perfect world, most taxes should be local, since they have the most direct impact on the quality of life of the taxpayer.
Prop 13 gave the State all kinds of excuses to encroach into what should be local control.