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Jerry Brown takes a hard look at Prop. 13
- 01-05-2011
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By Anthony York and Shane Goldmacher/Los Angeles Times
In his first full day on the job, Gov. Jerry Brown walked right up to the third rail of California politics: Proposition 13. Heading into a meeting with local government officials Tuesday morning, Brown said implementation of the property-tax limits that Californians hold dear has contributed to the state's financial mess. The new governor said his budget proposal next week would include plans to return to cities and counties many government functions that Sacramento took over after Proposition 13 passed. The measure "started the centralization of power," Brown told reporters before entering the closed-door meeting. Afterward, he expanded on that idea, saying Proposition 13 "took away the power of counties to tax, for the most part; it sent the decisions up to Sacramento. So we want to redistribute all that." (more…)
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