Leftist hate-site, FireDogLake, lets their financial idiot-in-chief, Ian Welsh, tell Californians why they’re in such a mess:
Because they didn’t give their government carte-blanche to raise taxes
To fix California’s budget crisis two propositions need to pass:
First: a repeal of proposition 13, so that a supermajority is no longer needed for budget changes and so that property taxes can be raised again. Sorry, if you want government, schools and roads, you will have to pay for them.
Second: a proposition which outlaws all future propositions and allow the legislature to nullify any past propositions with a simple majority vote. Californians have repeatedly proved that direct democracy does not work in California. We can debate why, but the results are in.
Any reasonable person would know that decades of mismanagement by the Democrat party in their state is what put them where they are now.
In an update to the above insipidness, Welsh celebrates tax increases on the poor
Apparently California Dems are going to try and sidestep Republicans and pass tax raises – a gas tax increase, sales tax increase and a 2.5% surcharge on State income tax. Pretty horribly regressive taxes, but at least they realize they can’t just keep borrowing and loading the cost onto the future.
Yeah Ian, because cutting spending is just too fucking difficult for a “government always knows best” jackhole like you to figure out.
The have no problem squeezing blood from a stone or wine from a turnip – Prop 13 is the only thing holding back the floodgates on an Insane Clown Dance off the Cliffs of Forgetfulness. In fact Californians have repeatedly proved that direct democracy DOES work, but those feeble-minded drooling idiots don’t like that it does or what it does.
What Dirtcrashr said. Those idiots (i.e., the current inhabitants of the Sacramento insane asylum, including the RINO occupant of the governor’s mansion) have obviously forgotten how bad it was in the pre-Prop 13 world and why pressure was brought to bear to put it on the ballot in the first place.
Howard Jarvis must be spinning in his grave.