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mcsluggo · 08-03-2009, 03:39 PM

California has the most disfunctional state government in the country for two primary reasons.

First so much of its laws come from direct ballot initiatives... which are written by one of two groups, self-interested groups with deep advertisement budgets that can easily fool the majority of the public to vote for any idiotic thing by labeling it the "apple pie and milk for all intiative", or well meaning but niave small groups that write laws with no concept of what the true effect of their in-expert wording will be.

it is no insult to most people to say that they simply have neither the expertise nor the dilligence to understand and vote on 10 specific amendments to the california constitution each time they go to the polls... yet that is exactly what the initiative system has them doing. It is an idea that sounds GREAT on paper (i was really psyched when i first heard about it) but is a NIGHTMARE in reality.

as a result of past initiatives, the assempby has very littly discretion... on BOTH revenue raising AND spending. It all comes straight from capital gains taxes (which are hugely cyclical) because they can't tap normal sources like property taxes efficiently.

Second, (and this one is is a DIRECT warning to Texas)... California is seriously over gerymandered. as a result almost all of the seats in both congress (ie washington), and the assembly (ie sacramento) are "safe" conservative or liberal, and they get the biggest moonbat idiots from both sides of the aisle. These guys are morons to start with AND they simply can't work with each other, either. Arnold is actually working hard to reverse at least THIS, if he is successful in reducing gerrymandering, then no matter what else goes down, you would have to view his overall term with some degree of favor.

Texas has actually surpassed California in the Gerrymandering circus... frankly, y'all better get the ideological sticks out of your asses and fix this, or you will head down the exact same moonbat highway as california in the years to come. Seriously.

08-03-2009, 03:39 PM	#3
mcsluggo Golden Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: McLean, VA Posts: 1,970	California has the most disfunctional state government in the country for two primary reasons. First so much of its laws come from direct ballot initiatives... which are written by one of two groups, self-interested groups with deep advertisement budgets that can easily fool the majority of the public to vote for any idiotic thing by labeling it the "apple pie and milk for all intiative", or well meaning but niave small groups that write laws with no concept of what the true effect of their in-expert wording will be. it is no insult to most people to say that they simply have neither the expertise nor the dilligence to understand and vote on 10 specific amendments to the california constitution each time they go to the polls... yet that is exactly what the initiative system has them doing. It is an idea that sounds GREAT on paper (i was really psyched when i first heard about it) but is a NIGHTMARE in reality. as a result of past initiatives, the assempby has very littly discretion... on BOTH revenue raising AND spending. It all comes straight from capital gains taxes (which are hugely cyclical) because they can't tap normal sources like property taxes efficiently. Second, (and this one is is a DIRECT warning to Texas)... California is seriously over gerymandered. as a result almost all of the seats in both congress (ie washington), and the assembly (ie sacramento) are "safe" conservative or liberal, and they get the biggest moonbat idiots from both sides of the aisle. These guys are morons to start with AND they simply can't work with each other, either. Arnold is actually working hard to reverse at least THIS, if he is successful in reducing gerrymandering, then no matter what else goes down, you would have to view his overall term with some degree of favor. Texas has actually surpassed California in the Gerrymandering circus... frankly, y'all better get the ideological sticks out of your asses and fix this, or you will head down the exact same moonbat highway as california in the years to come. Seriously. Last edited by mcsluggo; 08-03-2009 at 03:43 PM.