CA: A moderating influence (Prop 56)

SF Chronicle ^ | February 29, 2004 | Debra J. Saunders

[calcowgirl]

PROPOSITION 56 supporters promise less "partisan gridlock" if voters lower the threshold needed to pass a budget in Sacramento to 55 percent from a two-thirds vote of the state Assembly and Senate.

Opponents counter that there would be less gridlock because state lawmakers would happily raise taxes. So the Proposition 56 folks came up with some gimmicks to entice voters fed up with politics as usual. One provision would revoke the pay of legislators for every day they miss the budget's ostensible June 15 deadline. Another would make legislators work until a budget is passed.

[Lancey Howard]

I suspect that if the threshold to raise taxes was lowered to 55 percent, Democrats would raise taxes so fast and furiously that voters would think twice before sending big-spending Democrats to Sacramento.

Yes to the first part, no to the second.
Taxes would go through the roof alrighty, but the parasites who elect Democrats don't pay taxes so what would they care? They would continue to reelect the same scumbag Democrats who shower them with "free stuff".

[calcowgirl]

Prop 56 ping... Not all Dems like it.

[Carry_Okie]

I suspect that if the threshold to raise taxes was lowered to 55 percent, Democrats would raise taxes so fast and furiously that voters would think twice before sending big-spending Democrats to Sacramento.

So, Debra thinks we should all vote for 56 just because she has a "suspicion"?
Gerrymandering precludes voting them out for raising taxes. Saunders is an idiot.

[BibChr]

Being forced to think nice about this Democrat Ciancamilla — a California Dem who actually makes some sense and shows some responsibility — is making my head hurt!

Dan