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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (549628)2/12/2010 8:11:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573824
 
They should have required a 2/3 majority to increase spending. Then they wouldn't have to raise taxes.

Maybe in real per capita terms.

Otherwise (except as a temporary measure to effectively push spending down for awhile), I wouldn't even agree with the idea, and it would be too easy to get the 2/3rds majority for approval (and once you get the approval to expand spending it could expand much more than the inflation adjusted per-capita rate).