Money, money everywhere and not a buck to spend -- at least from the barrels of billions locked up by ballot-box budgeting. That money can only be spent on specific programs previously approved by voters. It can't be used to help balance the books in Sacramento or pay down the state's rising debt or avoid slashing programs for the elderly poor and disabled. Ballot-box budgeting usually involves a noble cause with an ignoble means: snatching a tax source or raiding the treasury at the expense of other public needs. The frequent knock on the Legislature is that it won't get...