[NTHockey]

The ONLY problem is that elected officials, once elected, are infected with a fatal dose of egotism, hubris and delusions of royalty.

If indeed the ballot box is all that stands between freedom and anarchy, is this idiot advocating anarchy?

Be careful what you wish for; be very careful.

[mad_as_he$$]

"Giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

P.J. O'Rourke

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Revise the Initiative system so that citizens can only REDUCE taxes via the initiative process,not approve spending for anything. This would include rescinding or canceling politician approved spending.

That would be the ultimate “check and balance” and solve the problem.

[CPOSharky]

Perhaps if CA had less than the current 800+ state agencies...

[Jim Noble]

The post-Jarvis compromise: Republicans get low taxes, Democrats can borrow as much as they want for high spending.

It's not going to work much longer.

[grey_whiskers]

It's TRUE, I tell you. California politicians have too little power

...of self-control.

Cheers!

[Nat Turner]

George Mitrovich please put pipe down and step away from the keyboard....

[Oldpuppymax]

Another leftist stands up for dictatorship. After all, such “government” has been quite successful in the past. From Pharaoh to Castro, nothing but universal bliss and contentment. Now let’s tell the author that the new ruler will be....Sarah Palin.

[Joan Kerrey]

Reverse prop-13, remove term limits, lower the majority needed to pass a budget. If you think we’re taxed too much now just give in to the demands of politicians making these suggestions.

The state’s politicians are screaming, threatening and pleading, just as they did when prop-13 was passing. Prop -13 passed and Californians are still paying the highest taxes in the nation. Thank God prop-13 passed and thank God 2/3 is needed to increase taxes. It’s the only way the few of us who remain in California can continue to live here. Left alone our legislature would tax us all out of the state.

The gang in Sacramento have a serious spending problem and some of them honestly don’t believe it and still blame our problems on everything and everyone else. If they’re not happy then we’re doing something right.

[Carry_Okie]

I despise term limits, because they assure candidates whose principal loyalty is to the interests who will hire them on the way out. Effectively, it is to put the lobbyists in office.

That said, California's principal problem is public education, including media, producing a polity of people of idiots who think that "freedom" means everything should be "FREE!" and "responsibility" means its the fault of somebody else. Things were just too good here; it was too easy to make too much money.

[sig226]

One and done. Any politician can be replaced.

[pray4liberty]

Fire him, California. If he thinks the voters are the enemy, he is beyond all human help.