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Majority-vote budget measure Proposition 25 is a mixed bag
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| Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
| Last Edited | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! Aug 07, 2010 02:55am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Dan Walters |
| Media | Newspaper - Sacramento Bee |
| News Date | Friday, August 6, 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Conceptually, Proposition 25 could be an incremental step, albeit a very small one, toward improving California's ever-worsening governmental dysfunction. Or not.
Backed by unions and Democratic politicians, the measure would eliminate the decades-old requirement in the California Constitution for a two-thirds legislative vote on the state budget.
Its advocates contend, with good cause, that the two-thirds vote has usually meant weeks of delay each year in passing a budget, capped by some sort of expedient get-out-of-town deal that leaves underlying problems unresolved. Typically, votes are acquired one by one with special favors.
Proposition 25's practical effect would be to eliminate Republican leverage on the budget, which is why GOP lawmakers and their business allies intensely dislike the measure.
What we don't know is whether Proposition 25, if enacted, would actually improve the Capitol's abysmal record on governance, especially in fiscal matters, and – more importantly – whether its passage would have hidden consequences, intended or unintended. |
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