Another tax revolt may be brewing, so to divert attention they focus on valuations. That is an approach used throughout the country and I support it. This proposition is being used as a smokescreen to keep people's focus on property valuation. It is easy to sell the idea that property taxes go up because of increased values, but that's not correct. They don't want people to understand that property taxes on commercial and industrial properties have gone way down and there has been a shift to homeowners.
Tax collectors are only interested in more money, more power and more ways to spend money.
There is an unholy alliance between county supervisors and tax assessors. The supervisors tell them how much money they need, then the assessors increase valuations to raise it. The actual method of determining property taxes, of course, is somewhat more complex than that. Prop 104, if adopted, would allow qualified senior citizens to freeze their homes' valuation. That would mean that all other property tax bills would have to rise somewhat to make up the budgetary difference lost because of the freeze.