If it lowers voters' taxes, but increases costs on faraway non-residents/non-voters... isn't that exactly what voters like?

Also, the Legislative Analyst's Office says Prop 218/1996 doesn't affect property taxes, but rather other kinds of property fees. See http://www.lao.ca.gov/1996/120196_prop_218/understanding_pro... – especially figure 2.

Clearly, fixes are going to have to unwind previous statewide and local law... which means convincing people of the causes and solutions, over time. It took decades to enact the bad policies; it'll take many election cycles to chip away at them as well.

A land value tax isn't a property tax, so no problem there.