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Prop 30 doesn't address the bad schools in California. We have a big union problem: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/new-california-taxes-pay-for-pensio
by jacoblyles 14y ago
Prop 30 doesn't address the bad schools in California. We have a big union problem: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/new-california-taxes-pay-for-pensions-not-schools.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/new-california-taxe...
High taxes, big deficits, and bad public services - California state government achieves the trifecta of suck.
- xxpor 14y agoYou don't have a union problem, you have a direct democracy problem.
- jacoblyles 14y agoNone of the big unsustainable pension increases involved ballot measures, as far as I know. The unions are the biggest spenders in California election and incumbency is rampant even when the state is going down the tubes.
- xxpor 14y agoThen tell your local officials to grow a backbone. If incumbency is rampant, that's a structural problem with your redistricting process, not the unions. If BigCo Inc is allowed to spend a ton of money in elections, why can't the unions?
- tarr11 14y agoProp 30 did address bad schools by avoiding "trigger cuts" of 6 billion dollars in 2012-13 [1] $5.4 billion to K–14 education and $500 million to public universities. http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm