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Re:Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in ... by leafmeal on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:38PM (#23608251)
Prop 13 (passed in 1978) reduced budgets substantially for local governments in California --- roughly 60% state wide [1]. Perhaps that's what they were referring to.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13...

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Re:Mathematicians urge colleagues to boycott police work in ... by masonic on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:09AM (#23612386)
It did not reduce local budgets by 60%, it merely reduced local government share of property taxes by (not quite) 60%, initially, as the Brown administration and Democrat legislature leadership clawed money back to state control.

(The local share of property tax was not defined in Prop 13; this is strictly how the Democrats in power chose to implement Prop 13.)

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