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Maybe the hidden advantage of Tim Draper's plan to split California into 6 states [0] was reversing rent control. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californ
by capkutay 11y ago
Maybe the hidden advantage of Tim Draper's plan to split California into 6 states [0] was reversing rent control.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
- thephyber 11y agoRent control in San Francisco was a local ordinance in San Francisco. There are many, many factors involved in dividing up an existing government into 6 new governments. Existing laws (namely Prop 13), significantly more abridged state Constitutions, existing contractual liability obligations (CALPERS & CALSTERS retirement plans), and other contracts would likely be renegotiated in light of a different set of laws. The only thing I particularly liked about this is that California's population base is currently an outlier and our US Senate representation is vastly underpowered in proportion to other states. I don't think the founding fathers knew that one state would have 69x the population of another state without the people voting to change either the state composition or the method of calculation of senators.
- ende 11y agoThe Senate has nothing to do with representing the population of the states, that's what the House of Representatives is for (its even in the name). The delegates to the Senate represent the sovereignty of the states within a Federal structure. They are basically ambassadors.