Tom McLintock writes of a last-ditch effort to reign in the mess in Sacramento. The radical idea: Ask the voters before raising taxes.
Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, now pending in the Senate, would restore that political balance at its fundamental level: the voter. It would bring back the common dictionary definition of a tax and require that all taxes be approved by voters. By reinstating taxpayers to the decision-making process, voters could judge for themselves whether their money is being spent wisely and whether they wish to entrust government with still more of their earnings.
I hope it works. I don’t know if we can survive much more of Gray Davis On Steroids.
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