Happy Birthday Prop 13!

CityBeat celebrates Prop 13's 30th Birthday this week

Appropriate as we face a crushing budget crisis. The Governor swears it's a spending problem not a revenue problem. But thanks to Howard Jarvis, we most definitely have a revenue problem.

The same Howard Jarvis who said at the time of passing Prop 13:

That we don't need schools, since “What we’re really doing in the public school systems is nothing short of manufacturing people for the welfare rolls.”

And we don't need libraries, since "63 percent of the graduates are illiterate, anyway”

Right, we don't need revenue.