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The Tax Revolt Neighbors gather in Los Angeles to rally for Proposition 13, an initiative launched by conservative Howard Jarvis in 1978. Many homeowners rallied to Jarvis’s antitax movement because rising land values had increased their property taxes sharply. After Californians passed Proposition 13, some thirty-seven states cut property taxes, and twenty-eight reduced income taxes. The tax issue helped the Republican Party end decades of Democratic dominance.

READING THE IMAGE: Considering the signs, what is the main concern of the people pictured here? What kinds of people are pictured here, and what are their stakes in the property tax issue?

CONNECTIONS: What other issues did Republicans capitalize on in the 1970s and 1980s?

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