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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: DMaA who wrote (15021)11/3/2003 5:24:54 PM
From: Original Mad Dog   of 793837
 
Well proposition 13 sure as heck wasn't the solution to the problem

I would argue that it was a good start. The problem was that the government's appetite for revenues in California is particularly voracious. Just as the most effective, last ditch cure for morbid obesity is to have one's stomach stapled shut, the most effective cure for a legislative culture that increases spending that dramatically is to cut off its food (revenues). I recognize that Prop 13 predates the 90's spending binge by a couple of decades, but a similar approach to cut off other sources of revenue would have forced the California legislature to make tough choices about which spending was necessary instead of increasing the spending by as much in ten years as it had been increased in the previous 150.
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