"In light of the material that has been produced regarding the effects of Proposition 13, should it be reformed? What are some of the major political issues that need to be considered when dealing with this "third rail" of American politics?" Most Americans don't put too much trust in the government's hands. Lack of trust in government is as old as the nation itself and has its clearly expressed by Bill of Rights added to the …showed first 75 words of 3845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3845 total…as Jarvis and Gann had done and as scores of others have since, either to tie down politicians, bureaucrats and judges, or to compel them to act in narrowly prescribed ways - term limits; spending limits; spending mandates; three-strikes laws, and all the rest. Unfortunately, many of those reforms made representative government still more irrelevant, unresponsive and incomprehensible, further increasing voter alienation, and thus reaffirming the lesson that Proposition 13 taught and the world it created