Local governments, and the special interests which covet more public funds to sustain them, are pursuing new taxes with a vengeance. Despite California having the top tax rates in the nation, it’s never enough for politicians and bureaucrats.

While progressives’ pursuit of ever higher taxes is built into their DNA, there seems to be even heightened urgency this year. The reason for that is that a pending statewide initiative that restores a key provision of Proposition 13 slams the door on a court-created loophole.

Since 1978, all local special taxes have required a two-thirds vote of the electorate. But ignoring precedence and the plain language of Proposition 13, a 2017 decision from the California Supreme Court in California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland created a massive looph

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