What the Results Mean
by Michael
If you can trust the polls, then all the propositions except 1F are going to fail. State GOP leaders will predictably spin the old "no new taxes" shtick as the reason voters voted everything down. But I'm not buying it. Most people I've talked to are not opposed to the taxes, they are opposed to the cap on spending, or the idea that voters are being made to decide the big issues instead of our elected officials.
After all, both houses of the state legislature costs nearly a quarter billion annually to staff and maintain. If they can't do the job of balancing the budget and passing laws, then we don't need them. Lets dissolve the state legislature, institute direct democracy and spend that money on something worthwhile like education, public health or roads.
Posted under Political Observations on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 13:45
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