Calif. High Court Tax Decision Could Be A Pyrrhic Victory

By Bryan Wenter (September 5, 2017, 11:54 AM EDT) -- Since California voters approved Proposition 13 in 1978 to limit property taxes, raising taxes to fund infrastructure, facilities and services has required a vote at a general election. In subsequent years, Propositions 62, 218 and 26 added a range of additional limitations on taxation and other forms of public finance. Collectively, those measures have had myriad effects on the ways cities and counties accomplish the public's business, including the "fiscalization of land use" and the creation of complicated alternative public finance techniques....

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