What about
your own nuclear family,
your children?
The younger/new home-owners of CA are subsidizing your mother's housing costs, not the other way around. I'm happy that my folks are happy and healthy, and I know if they paid more taxes, they'd be in Reno or Phoenix.
But the couple next door to them? She's a teacher and he's a recruiter for some tech-firm in SF. He drives 2 hours each way, 4 a day, to get into SF each morning and then out again. We think her parents are helping out with the costs, there is almost no other way they can make those payments. Their little boy can't see his dad most of the days of the week, and when he does, it's after 2 hours of traffic. That's 2 families, one working full time and one retired (we assume, so heavy caveats here) that are now required to make ends meet for one little boy. How the hell are they gonna pay for his college? Will that boy know his father at all? What happens when Daddy gets laid off? Are they going to continue to be my folk's neighbors? Where are they going to go then?
Prop 13 is taxing the younger/newer homeowners for the benefit of the older homeowners. Many of these younger/newer people can't make the payments, not even close. So they need help from their own parents who are benefiting from the tax structure. This assumes that those parents are alive themselves, willing to help, and can help at all. Not all younger couples have that; it shouldn't be a requirement.
I'm saying that you should just let the market decide how these taxes are allocated, it seems to work pretty well for nearly every other state in this country.
Yes, it would be chaos for a few years. No doubt, my own folks would be forced to move. Just nuts all around. But every day that Prop 13 continues, it gets worse and worse for the youth of California and for their children too. Via Prop 13, California is directly hurting it's sons and daughters futures and therefore it's own. California is eating it's seed corn.
The dam has to break sometime.