In this column in the Wall Street Journal, Shikha, Adam and I explain why voter initiatives are NOT the source of California's budget problems.
With the Golden State still struggling to balance its books, politicians from both sides of the aisle have come up with a nifty way to avoid responsibility for the mess: Blame the voters.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, summed it up for his fellow pols recently by telling a reporter: "All of those propositions tell us how we must spend our money. . . . This is no way, of course, to run a state." State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, has made similar comments in denouncing "ballot-box budgeting."
Their indictment is false. Voters aren't tying lawmakers' hands too much, but too little.
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Unions are a huge problem.As are the prevailing wage laws.
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Can you imagine a bankruptcy judge giving a person a break because their boss should have given them a raise. It's not their fault they can't pay their bills, because they would have been able to if the boss had given the raise they deserved.af | November 19, 2009, 9:43pm | #
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