Re: Malling Sacramento

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Tim Bousquet wrote:

> In effect, the tax burden has been shifted from
> property owners and onto mall patrons.
<snip>
> In short, you can blame malling in California in large
> part on Prop 13.

I agree.  Time to critically re-read _The Fiscal Crisis of the
State_, in light of the subsequent neoliberal response to the fiscal
crisis of the state?

Jim O'Connor writes:

*****   If monopoly capital's ideological and political hegemony is
not effectively challenged, if a unified movement is not organized
around opposition to monopoly capital's budgetary priorities, the
fiscal crisis will continue to divide all those groups and strata
that today fight in dismal isolation for a greater share of the
budget or for a smaller share of the tax burden.  Put another way, in
the absence of a political movement that transcends particular
interests, divisions between monopoly sector workers, state workers,
and the surplus population could very well deepen.   (_The Fiscal
Crisis of the State_, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1973, p. 255)   *****

Deepen it did, one result of which was the "welfare reform," to which
many workers gave consent.

Yoshie