The injustice is actually larger than this paragraph makes it seem. First, people can pass their low property taxes on to their children using trusts, creating

The injustice is actually larger than this paragraph makes it seem. First, people can pass their low property taxes on to their children using trusts, creating a sort of landed nobility in California. Second, Prop 13 results in neighbors who receive the same public services paying vastly different taxes to fund them. Taxing similarly situated individuals differently violates the norm of horizontal equity.