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...overshadowed by Jarvis' celebrity has been the other sponsor of Proposition 13, retired Real Estate Man Paul Gann, 66, who heads People's Advocate, a Sacramento-area antitax lobby. Scoffs a Jarvis aide: "We thought we needed the 150,000 votes his group could deliver in petition signatures. We alone got a million names and we didn't need...
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...Friedman, now teaching at Stanford, made TV commercials free of charge to back 13. Claims Friedman: "If we continue the growth of government and its involvement in our lives, it will destroy us." Former Governor Ronald Reagan has rallied behind Jarvis. All but invisible in the campaign is Paul Gann, 65, a retired real estate salesman who heads a Sacramento-area anti-tax lobby, People's Advocate, and shares billing on the ballot (Proposition 13 is also known as the "Jarvis-Gann initiative...
Critics of the initiative, who include most leaders of state politics, business, labor and California's 1.5 million-member state and local bureaucracy, contend that it would lead to mass layoffs of teachers, police and firemen. Backers of Jarvis-Gann say that the warnings are preposterous and that the state is already running a $3.5 billion surplus that would soften the actual cutbacks to little more than moderate retrenchments...
Polls show the outcome uncertain, with nearly half the electorate still undecided. In a desperate effort to defeat Jarvis-Gann and appease homeowners, Governor Jerry Brown is backing a more modest Behr amendment. It uses a complex valuation formula to prevent local governments from increasing property taxes for homeowners by much more than the inflation rate. That is part way to a good idea. The solution is not holding down any one tax, but holding them all down, and the best way to achieve that is to curb spending by government itself...