1970's Government and Politics | I'm Mad as Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader

Memoir

By: Howard Jarvis with Robert Pack

Date: 1979

Source: Jarvis, Howard, with Robert Pack. I'm Mad as Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and Its Leader. New York: Times Books, 1979, 4–10, 12–13.

About the Author: Howard Jarvis (1902–1986) was a successful businessman with careers as the owner of a Utahbased newspaper chain and numerous manufacturing businesses in California. Always active in Republican Party affairs, Jarvis devoted himself full-time to politics in the last decades of his life, particularly on the issue of reducing corporate and personal taxes. After several tries to get a property-tax reduction initiative on the California ballot, Jarvis succeeded in putting Proposition 13 before the voters in June 1978. The effort made Jarvis a national spokesman on the issue of taxation.

Introduction

In the 1960s, federal and state...