Comment by lokar
13 hours ago
Prop13 was a big tax cut. The people behind it were minimal government conservative libertarians.
And the state did slash spending in the years following. In particular funding for the university system was hit very hard.
They did not slash spending. At most the rate of increase slowed down for a year or so before continuing to rise at an even faster rate.
https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/history/state-budgets/
That’s not a great measure. The state was still growing very fast. The better metric would be state expenditure as a fraction of state gdp