Earlier this year, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association turned in 1.3 million signatures and successfully qualified the Local Taxpayer Protection Act to Save Proposition 13 (LTPA) for the November ballot. The LTPA will make it harder to raise local taxes in California. It’s desperately needed at a time when affordability is a top concern of state residents. Proposition 13, now part of the state constitution, limited annual increases in property taxes while a property is under the same ownership, and it cut the tax rate from a statewide average of 2.67% to 1%. In addition, Prop. 13 made it harder...