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April 19, 2012
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg pledged today to put forward for the 2014 election a package of major changes to California’s initiative process, including a provision to make it easier for legislators to place tax measures on the ballot.
The Sacramento Democrat, speaking at a Sacramento Press Club luncheon, outlined a trio of initiative reforms he said “will both strengthen California’s tradition of direct democracy and empower the people elected by their communities…to make clear choices.”
He said he plans to put the proposals on the 2014 ballot either through a vote of the Legislature, a task he said could be easier if Democrats secure a supermajority in the upper house this November, or by gathering the necessary voter signatures through the initiative process.
One of the major changes endorsed by Steinberg is lowering the bar for putting a statutory initiative on the ballot from a two-thirds vote to a majority vote. He argued that even with voters’ 2010 decision to give the Legislature power to approve a budget with a majority vote, lawmakers are governing with “one arm tied behind out backs” because of the two-thirds threshold for enacting taxes. Recognizing the political challenges of lowering the required vote for new taxes, he said he would at least like the opportunity to give voters the chance to decide for themselves.
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If the democrat party gets a super majority in both houses, we in the People’s Republic of Kalifornia are F’d.
I want to tax you whether you like it or not! I want to rescind prop 13! I want to ban plastic baby diapers! I want to make fishing illegal as it is cruel to the fish. These are the kinds of left winged ideas coming your way people, Going on record to say I told you so.
Don’t these tax and spend liberals ever have anything better to do than to find ways to make it even more expensive for us working folks to live in what is already the most expensive state in the union? They’re well on their way to taxing and regulating just about every business and productive member of society out of their little socialist utopia.
Best thing that could have happened to this slimeball is if his mother aborted him. He truly is the scum of the earth. Vile, filthy, despicable left wing moron, just like his heroes Brown and Obama.