Initiatives Create State Budget Problems
Joe Mathews -
December 27, 2008 - 10:44am
It's not just California. The Associated Press looks at how voter-approved initiatives are adding to the budget headaches in several cash-strapped states.


















So hillarious that if
So hillarious that if initiatives were the problem of budgeting then why is the federal government $11 Trillion in debt? Wow and they did it all without initiatives. You guys against direct democracy loathe the constituents who you are supposed to represent.
Not at all
California Screamin', Don't oppose direct democracy at all. Want to make it work better. Federal and state budget deficits are apples and oranges. But on the state level, it doesn't make sense to let voters approve extra-budgetary expenses, at least without showing how they should pay to it. It's bad when legislators do that, and it's bad when voters do that. Joe Mathews Irvine senior fellow, New America Foundation www.newamerica.net/blog/blockbuster-democracy/
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