Richard L. Lucier, in Public ~dminishation Review (July-Aug. 1979), 1225 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The much-publicized citizens' "tax revolt" of 1978 didn't really hap- pen.
Proposition 13, the property tax relief measure passed Califor- nians in June 1978, was widely heralded by economists and politicians as the opening shot of a middle-class antigovernment, antitax move- ment. Indeed, proposals to limit taxes and/or government spending appeared on ballots in 13...