No one pretends it is progressive. Prop 13 and the group that supports it are from 1978, which is before the progressive moment was really a thing. The suppor

No one pretends it is progressive. Prop 13 and the group that supports it are from 1978, which is before the progressive moment was really a thing. The supporters are explicitly non-partisan: https://www.hjta.org/about-hjta/paccommittees/ https://www.hjta.org/about-hjta/paccommittees/ The main issue is that while they were setting this up, they also arranged for a 66% voter threshold for renewing things like school funding. Most districts around here are only 60-66% progressive, which means the schools are chronically underfunded (funding is 47th in the nation, despite California being one of the richest states).