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  • Sneaking Around Proposition 13 , They're back!...

    12/13/2005 11:22:29 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 22 replies · 884+ views
    CaliforniaRepublic.org ^ | 12/13/05 | Jon Coupal - HJTA
    A loosely knit band of Silicon Valley's wealthiest is back with a new scheme to increase the burden on property tax payers. This group is mostly the same billionaire boy's club members that spent $60 million in 2000 on a successful campaign to make it easier to increase property taxes for school bonds, while vigorously defending tax breaks for their own industry. Since then, local districts have successfully passed more than $39 billion in local school bonds, but for these hi-tech industry elites, it's not enough. Now they have filed a new tax hiking initiative that would hit every property...