Gaines Shows Interest in Supporting Constitutional Convention Ballot Measure
I'm not so worried about the financial problems... they should be able to figure that out... it's called cut the spending. Instead of declaring "financial disaster" and killing the state employee's salaries... use the same stance and cut the "big ticket items"... like education, health & human services, and other piglets suckling at the pig until things get better.
Repealing the California constitution and re-enacting a new constitution is an end-round for 2 major defeats the liberals have had:
Proposition 8 - Banning Gay Marriage in California
Proposition 13 - Locking Property Taxes at 1% of original purchase price of the property
For years, the Libs have been trying to repeal Prop 13, blaming it for all of their financial woes in the state, yet spending has increased 80% in the last decade, and Prop 13 has been there for a long time... we don't have a revenue problem, we have a SPENDING problem. California spends something like 25 times the average state's budget... and enormously larger than Texas, Florida, or New York, all of which are close in size.
Comments(2)