Proposition 13 is no longer off-limits in California

Prop 13 was a 1978 measure that capped property taxes.But as the Democrats gain increasing power across the state, they are looking greedily at more and more sources of potential income. Pesky laws that have stood in their way could not fall due to their numerical dominance. Prop 13 made it so that property taxes for businesses are reassess only when the business changes ownership, meaning that some businesses are still paying taxes based on their 1978 assessment. This means that getting rid of Prop 13 will massively raise property taxes for businesses in California.

People often forget that California was once a Republican stronghold. Ronald Reagan was governor there until 1975, just three years before Prop 13. But Reagan was arguably partially responsible for the demographic shift in his own state; when he signed an amnesty for three million illegal aliens in 1986, that opened the door for millions more illegals who came in under the not-unsupportable belief that once they were in, they were safe. Now there are more than two million illegals just in California, and their millions of non-illegal descendants who vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

And now that they have cleaned California of the scourge of politicians who even pretend to have conservative economic ideals, they can scrape up every last little bit of property taxes from those eeeevvviiiiillll businesses.

SpaceX: time to bail. Pack up yer stuff and move to a friendlier state. Wyoming. Montana. Utah.