Proposition 13

I heartily concur with your editorial position (Dec. 16) wherein you note that the recurrent and narrow efforts to foist a particular religious view upon the public schools have grown tiresome.

Would you please consider extending this despair to the constant bashing of Proposition 13 that is indulged in by your paper and many others that seem unable to realize the benefits of this proposition?

It has been acknowledged that many more millions of dollars have been collected since the enactment of Proposition 13 than ever before. Yet this money seems to disappear after collection.

Yet Proposition 13 is the whipping boy for every shortfall in the state of California. The people that complain because they are paying more taxes than their neighbor who was living there at the time of Proposition 13 probably would not have been able to afford their home if it had not been for Proposition 13, due to the the onerous taxes that would have been levied by this time. Proposition 13 has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court of California. Why has not this issue been declared dead?

MELVIN A. WILKIE

Fullerton