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I dug into this a bit since these comments were just confusing, but apparently Prop 13 required tax increases to get a 2/3 majority of the legislature. So it s
by Eridrus 1y ago
I dug into this a bit since these comments were just confusing, but apparently Prop 13 required tax increases to get a 2/3 majority of the legislature.
So it seems like Prop 13 just fucked California.
- SllX 1y agoCorrect. What is the point of having a representative government with a legislature if you just forcibly remove the lynchpin of power for that type of government?
- inferiorhuman 1y agoThat's the point. Props 13 and 8 were part of the republican anti-government movement often memorialized by Norquist's remark about making government small enough to drown.
- SllX 1y agoThe motivations and rhetoric are before my time. What’s leftover is just this stupid counterproductive set of laws undermining the legislature’s ability to legislate.