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...voted themselves a 57% cut?more than $7 billion?in the levy that hurts them most, the tax on the rising value of their homes. Ignoring warnings that schools may not be able to educate, libraries may close and crime rates may climb, the voters further decreed that any local tax hereafter may increase no more than 2% a year?substantially less than the anticipated hikes in the cost of living. California was the epicenter of the tax-quake, but there were Richter Scale readings nearly everywhere. On the same Tuesday that Proposition 13 swept to victory, taxpayers in Ohio...
State Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy predicts that 75,000 local employees will be fired statewide out of a total of 1.2 million, plus an additional 76,000 federally funded employees. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proposed layoffs of 8,300 city employees (out of 49,349), including 1,600 cops. More than half will be trainees recently hired under the Federal Government's CETA (for Comprehensive Employment Training Act), which is aimed at helping unskilled, unemployed people, many of whom are black...
...well rest on how he handles the highly complex crisis. Brown, who only last March warned that Proposition 13 would replace "one monster with another," had pushed a more modest Proposition 8 instead. It would have rolled back property taxes by about 30% for homeowners and tied state and local spending to rises in personal income. But as 13 picked up unstoppable momentum, Brown performed a pirouette that would have dazzled Diaghilev. By election night, as 13 rolled up its huge majority and 8 lost, 53% to 47%, the Governor was almost sounding as if the Jarvis-Gann proposal...
...Proposition 13. Said Brown: "We have our marching orders from the people. This is the strongest expression of the democratic process in a decade." He promised to implement 13 "in the most human, sensitive way I can"?and without raising state taxes to bail out the newly stricken local units of government. But, he admitted, "things will never be the same...
Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan suspects that they might. "Most judges have to think about being re-elected," he said, "and they do recognize the crucial role of the local press in that process." On the other hand, there have been at least ten newsroom invasions by police since the Stanford incident. "If police come to view newsrooms as places where they can routinely get information, this decision will have more of a chilling effect than any previous case," says Floyd Abrams, a noted constitutional lawyer who helped win the Pentagon papers case for the Times in 1971. "Then...