Many Utah residents argue that a solution to escalating property taxes would be for the Legislature to enact a Proposition 13-type law that would cap the rate at which local governments can tax properties.

Prop. 13, as it's commonly known, was passed by 65 percent of California voters in 1978 following a wave of rising values and windfall revenues for local governments. One of its proponents was a Utah native named Howard Jarvis.

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