"California voters got themselves into this mess a few years ago when they approved that proposition that cut all the taxes...now they think changing boneheads at the top is gonna FIX it?   *sigh*"

Minor point but Prop. 13 only froze property taxes, and then only on property bought before (about) 1977. All property which has changed hands in the last 25 years is taxed at current (confiscatory) rates.