Why? Because of the initiative process. Budgeting in California needlessly complicated and hamstrung due to the people of California. Prop 13 famously underfund

Why? 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.