This has been discussed many times. There is a very low percentage of people in California that are paying low property taxes thanks to Prop 13. In fact, so many properties were sold and flipped during the past 10 years that property taxes increased expotentially in price, there was plenty of taxes going to our State. The State just doesn’t know how to invest and/or manage their budget and “poof” magically made the money vanish. The more you give, the more it takes and the less there is to show for it.