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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, June 17, 2005

Prop 13

Yesterday I mentioned that Arnold was going around California raising the specter of Democrats wanting to overturn Prop 13 in order to overcome his anemic poll numbers and try and garner support for his special election. The San Fransisco Chronicl reminds us of one man who has actually talked about altering Prop 13 - Arnold's economic adviser:
Ironically, it was Schwarzenegger's own economic adviser, businessman Warren Buffett, who caused a major flap in 2003 when he raised the issue of Prop. 13 -- and urged an overhaul of the legendary property-tax measure to ensure that average homeowners wouldn't subsidize billionaires like himself.