#proposition-13 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #proposition-13, aggregated by home.social.
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@chris Your description of current efforts to defund #publiceducation in Canada mimic US defunding education since California’s disastrous 1979 #Proposition13 shifted tax bases from property to regressive revenue sources. For over 30 years, the University of California, my alma mater, has depended on #internationalstudents’ fees and out of state #tuition to patch budgets. Faculty and graduate students absorb support staff jobs. Buildings crumble, inadequate ventilation.
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Texas voters reject proposal to increase judges’ retirement ages
Texans soundly defeated a constitutional amendment that would have let judges stay on the bench longer. Proposition 13 would have increased the minimum retirement age from 70 to 75 and the mandatory retirement age from 75 to 79.
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I was just reminded that this great website mapping the extreme unfairness of #Prop13 exists. https://www.taxfairnessproject.org