No, that is not what I said. If you follow the link, you would find that Prop 76 went too far--it included all sorts of things that had nothing to do with a spending cap or were not conservative in the least. With any proposition, you get the good with the bad. In the case of Prop 76, there enough bad provisions to outweigh any good. Approving it would have made California worse off, not "a little bit better."
Prop 76 was voted down. We kept the status quo. And you are telling me we are better off...
No. I didn't say "better off." Just not worse off.
The rest of your comments are either irrelevant or insulting (but an improvement from your last post--thanks for that, anyway).
Well don’t really want to be insulting. I’m no economic genius.
During elections, I don’t rely on a 1-minute commercial. I read the information in the voters pamphlet. I read other sources as well, then I make my decision.
Resources like this forum are a huge help, but there is often no consensus on any given issue.
My reading and study of Prop 76 lead me to believe that it would retard the state Democrats ability to escalate spending to the degree they have. The increase in the budget is absolutely soaring and the status quo is not slowing that massive increase one iota.
I also see absolutely no reform on the horizon that will change the status quo and begin to slow the horrific rate of budget increases year after year.
Obviously I thought Prop 76 would somewhat slow the massive rate of increases in the annual budgets, or I would not have voted for it.
I believe Tom McClintock thought similarly. You believe he sold out the Republicans to be nice to the Governor.
Further, I believe Prop 76 would have, in time, reduced the portion of the state budget that is guaranteed to K-12 education. At least that was my reading of the language of the proposition. Apparently I am not the only one, or the California Teachers Association would not have mobilized to kill the proposition.
I wish I could know with absolute certainty that Prop 76 was or was not an effective start to fixing California’s soaring sequential budgets. I can’t know that for certain. But my reading and study of it, along with knowing its supporters and detractors, lead me to support the proposition and brand those who voted against it as “idiots”, a feeling I can’t retract.
We sit today with massive runaway California budgets and no solution in sight. Nothing but the status quo. The State will never likely become insolvent, but there will be some brutal years of belt tightening, and better years of massive spending. This isn’t going to change. Voting against Prop 76 guaranteed that.