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Prop. 25 changes everything

  • 11-04-2010
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Editorial/Los Angeles Times

Were California voters especially wise Tuesday when they adopted both Proposition 25, which erases the Legislature's crippling two-thirds vote requirement for adopting a budget, and Proposition 26, which imposes a new two-thirds mandate for imposing or raising a fee? End the gridlock, perhaps they were saying, but not at the expense of taxpaying families or businesses. Or were they being especially clueless, telling Democratic lawmakers to adopt the budget they want, but without knowing or caring that they were simultaneously making the job close to impossible by depriving those same politicians of one of their chief budget-balancing tools? It's tempting but in the end pointless to try to find a consistent voter philosophy among the confusing and often contradictory ballot measures. (more…)

 

 

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