It is now too easy for a minority to hold up passage of budget/revenue bills. The wasted time results in enormous costs to the taxpayer as well as bringing chaos to the state economy. Majority rule is normal, fair, and efficient. Requiring 2/3 to agree for budget passage is a burden shared by only a very few other states (Arkansas and Rhode Island), states whose budgets are nowhere near the size and complexity of California's.
Go HERE, to Californians For Democracy, to help get budgeting sanity on the ballot.
We have one of the highest-paid legislatures in the nation. It's time we have them doing more than bicker and stalemate.
Monday assorted links
-
1. Some points on rare earths. 2. Are there fewer great songs per year? 3.
Susan Sontag on good vs. great writers. 4. On seriousness. 5. Is Kansas
City t...
9 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment