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The wording was awful but not malicious. The proposition passed by 87%, reducing the amount of school-allocated property taxes the disabled and elderly need to
by antiterra 4y ago
The wording was awful but not malicious. The proposition passed by 87%, reducing the amount of school-allocated property taxes the disabled and elderly need to pay. Politically it was the perfect intersection of lowering taxes and social support program.
The main reason for the verbal atrocity is legislators had to cram a more or less complete description into a single sentence, per constitutional requirements.
- pessimizer 4y ago> The main reason for the verbal atrocity is legislators had to cram a more or less complete description into a single sentence, per constitutional requirements. Or the other common reason, that they campaigned on getting a measure to the ballot that has voter support, but they don't want it to pass. The first thing you do is come up with a confusing text with extra points for double negatives, and you follow that up with a confusing media campaign. You may fail, and it passes with 87%, but sometimes if you work hard enough you can get Illinois to vote down a progressive income tax.