I'm glad there's a chance the commercial exemption may go away. That never made sense.<p>The bigger problem is that prop 13 is structured in a way that screws up neighborhoods. On my street in Palo Alto is a widow in her 90s who can still afford to stay in her home, which I think is great. There's also an older couple in a different home who would like to move out of their largish/multistory home but couldn't afford to pay the rent or property taxes on a small one-bedroom. As a result there's only one family with kids on the block.<p>As for prop 58...well if you are the sort of person who considers inheritance at all legitimate I'm not sure you have grounds to complain.
This is not anomalous to progressivism in California; it basically defines it. Rich heirs with massive trust funds, inherited real estate subsidized by tax advantages, and no income on a need scholarship at Berkeley complaining about how we need to raise income taxes so the rich can pay their fair share.