Voter approval of sales and income taxes and the advent of Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature have generated new hope among liberals that Proposition 13, the 1978 property tax limit they consider their bête noire, might be changed.
Not surprisingly, hope on the political left means fear on the right, which considers Proposition 13 to be its ideological touchstone.
Two events last week signal that property taxes are back on the political agenda.