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Honestly why? We have one of the highest tax burdens in the entire USA. We already pay more for water and more for electricity than almost anywhere else.
by matt_wulfeck 9y ago
Honestly why? We have one of the highest tax burdens in the entire USA. We already pay more for water and more for electricity than almost anywhere else.
- damnfine 9y agoIf you were paying for even half your impact on the land, most people would be taxed out of California. Why? You use it, you need to pay for it.
- jonathankoren 9y agoWhy? Because of the initiative process. Budgeting in California needlessly complicated and hamstrung due to the people of California. Prop 13 famously underfunds schools and the like. Also, Prop 98 (which is notoriously complex) hamstrings the budget process so that about half of the budget must be spent on education, which in effect can make everything that's not for K-14 twice as expensive. When I ascend to the throne, I'd make the legislature unicameral (really, what's the point of a state Senate anyway?) and eliminate the initiative process.
- ScottBurson 9y agoI wouldn't eliminate the initiative process entirely, but there definitely needs to be a higher vote threshold for laws the legislature can't modify.