Californian Democrats, DiFi and Pelosi among them, are nothing to write home about. But it’s California’s Goopers that are dismantling a once great state. The parallels with how they spike federal efforts – health care and gasoline mileage standards, for example – are obvious.

Needless to say, this was unconstitutional. Assessors were ordered to clean their acts up. The property tax bills for many people on fixed incomes skyrocketed. They screamed, and Jarvis and Gann saw their opportunity to strike. So they did.

While this sounds great, what it did was ensure gridlock. It, as Grover Norquist would say, “starves the beast.” Not being able to increase revenue, the state would have to cut programs and/or go into debt. And it has.

The first part of the Proposition, about cutting property taxes, except if it is sold, shifted the tax burden from businesses and corporations to homeowners, since they move more frequently; thereby, triggering reassessments at current (higher) values. So, other than the people who have stayed in their same homes for the past 30 years, homeowners aren’t seeing any tax relief. This also puts them in a position to not favor any tax increases. And, the cycle repeats.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6903

Nobody wants to pay for anything out there.

That problem isn’t isolated to just California, I’m afraid.