Prop 13: Mad as Hell | Retro Report

When Howard Jarvis declared that he was mad as hell about rising property taxes in California, he started a tax cutting movement that rolled across the nation. Jarvis's Proposition 13 is still on the books, and the debate over its consequences remains.

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[joshglover]

"Can I finish, Mr. Jarvis?"
"NO!!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[ripred]

The reason housing is so expensive is because homeowners wanted to prevent new development. As the population grew and demmand grew, supply couldn't keep up because these homeowners didn't want to allow the development that would ease the tax burden and housing costs, but they also didn't want to pay the cost of maintaining that exclusivity. In other words, they wanted to artificially distort the housing market through zoning, and then not actually bear the market cost of that choice.

[BLKPlutoh]

"Education is not the most important thing in this country." That's part of our problem.

[briganja]

Wow, so enlightening. I didn't even know about Prop 13, but now I can say that I am mad as hell about it! That law is absolutely ridiculous the way it blatantly benefits corporate land holders. And lol, I was laughing so hard at Reagan, thinking he knows anything about the economy with the hindsight we have after the failure of "Reaganomics".

But it's weird, reading these comments. Its like none of these people watched the same video that I just did. That's almost as interesting as the video itself to be honest. I don't get the aversion to public services and education.

[Loveroffood]

And now it's the complete opposite because so many people are homeless in Los Angeles and San Diego and San Francisco

[DSR]

Thank God for Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13. Thank the Lord God! I remember the astounding residential property taxes which forced older retired people to be forced to sell their small properties. And now I am one of them. I bought this small house a long time ago and I can stay here, retired, and I am able to pay the property taxes as proscribed by Proposition13 - and they do go up 2 percent every year - like Clockwork. It never goes down. I am not some rich landowner with a large house. No, it is a small, single home that I have worked to pay for most of my Life and now own after all those years of work. I can hopefully stay here, un-molested by "the government.!"

[berenicemarchese]

There should be low tax on residential property held by people with one home, and higher taxes on second homes and all commercial properties. That would provide a lot more money for schools without negatively affecting your average homeowner.

[kathleenarteaga]

I’m from CT, one of the highest taxed states in the US... painful. I have no problem paying taxes, I appreciate the importance of taxes. What I don’t appreciate is that we have no system by which to audit the spending of our taxes...the money doesn’t just appear, we work hard to earn it... but it certainly does just disappear. Once again, I have no problem with taxes, schools need funding, police and fire departments need funding, infrastructure requires funding, but while our taxes continue to increase our schools and infrastructure continue to fail. **side note-when Jarvis said, and I’m of course paraphrasing, “police and fire departments and education are not needed, only property ownership was important” I kinda chuckled. Ur right Jarvis, that plot of land is going to be worth a lot to those people when it goes up in flames and there is no fire department to help put them out. And that plot of land is going to be important when the owners leave it to children who can’t afford to live there or maintain it because they failed to get an education that could manifest a good career. 🤣 If people couldn’t tell back then that he was for big Corp and NOT for the little people...then the educational system was clearly already failing.

[williamnavarre]

When land becomes more valuable, land taxes should go up, causing a more intense use.

We need to compensate society for the land we own. After all, nature made the land as a blessing for all of us.

[brandondavidson]

"Unless people put that money in a tin can and bury it in the backyard". Yeah Reagan, that's the problem. The people who complained about property taxes were exactly the people who wouldn't just save the money they weren't paying in taxes and not spend it on the economy

[itrthho]

California has a $23 Billion budget surplus this year. So much for dire consequences from a tax cut over 40 years ago.

[insanisstultitia]

You get what you paid or steal from. Got my very low prop taxes, but my kids are dumb as rocks.

[prot]

Oh, please. The government subsidises everything, even cowboy poetry festivals! It's not tax cuts that are the problem, it's the crazy and misdirected spending.

[zenbuddah]

IM MAD AS HELL! AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

[tamekkaknuth]

I miss bonanza restaurant..they had best buffet in A V. MN :) one of my favorites

[windowsforvista]

As someone who went through california schools in the 2000s and had to constantly hear about how they were amazing in the 70s and 80s, this makes me sad. Not to mention the 10x property taxes I pay compared to neighbors. The game is rigged folks.

[gd]

If it costs money, if it is an incumbent, or i don't understand it, I vote against it...Doesn't seem to slow down the sacramento pigs at the trough though..Sadly I look twice if the building trades, firefighters or teachers union support it.

[mothboy]

does she.... know... what.. an octupus is????

[NJGuy]

Rememer in "Airplane!" there was the guy who was in the taxi the whole time?

That was Howard Jarvis.

[BlitzKing]

582 billion dollars in untaxed dollars over 35 years...