<p>As Proposition 13 approaches its 25th anniversary, California's landmark anti-tax initiative continues to be blamed by public policy experts for everything from unsightly blooms of auto malls to lackluster schools.</p>
<p>But in a February poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, 57 percent of respondents said they thought that Proposition 13 has turned out to be "mostly a good thing for California."</p>