Challenge to Proposition 13

As a recent first-time home buyer, who has been afforded the “privilege” of paying twice as much property tax as people owning houses worth three times as much as mine, I’m disappointed but not surprised that the Supreme Court seems to have found no grounds on which to overturn Proposition 13.

After all, Proposition 13 stands for the things that are helping to make this country what it is today: The failure of our elected officials to spend within their means and to carry out their responsibility to legislate; the principle of “first is best and forget the rest,” which is leaving behind a legacy of leveraged buyouts, $400-billion budget deficits and CEOs with multimillion-dollar salaries in charge of failing companies; and last, but certainly not least, the preference for the comfortable, inequitable status quo over the hard challenge to do what is fair.

BRIAN THEAKER, Temple City