Proposition Summary

Initiative measure effective January 1, 1917, amending Article XIII of Constitution. Declares all public revenues shall be raised by taxation of land values, exclusive of improvements; forbids tax or charge for revenue on labor product, occupation, business or person; permits assessment of incomes and inheritances for old age pensions, mothers' endowments and workingmen's disemployment and disability insurance. Declares land shall be equally assessed according to its value for use or occupancy, disregarding man's work thereon, such value determinable in municipalities and where ever else practicable by "Somers System" or other means of exact computation from central locations.

Proposition Number

5

Year

1916

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 260332; A: 31.1; N: 576533; B: 68.9

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

Charles James; Lona Ingham Robinson

Against Author

John S. Drum

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