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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...full significance of the revolt???and it is nothing less than that?was made plain by the magnitude of the victory won by proponents of California's now famous, or infamous, Proposition 13: 4.2 million voters supported the measure, overwhelming by nearly 2 to 1 the 2.3 million who refused to go along. It was as though millions of the state's taxpayers had thrown open their windows like the fed-up characters in the movie Network and shouted in thunderous unison: "I'm mad as hell?and I'm not going to take it any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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