Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
by lakmear on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:56PM
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California is the worst in the United States when it comes to the population vs state legislator issue. 80 members of the assembly and 40 members of the senate for 38.4 million people. Compare that to Vermont with 150 members of the House and 30 senators for a population 600,000. California could be construed as taxation without representation. You are completely correct that more legislators means less big lobbyist influence.
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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’
by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:00PM
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California citizens retain legislative power and exercise it fairly freely including on matters of taxation, where they have sharply constrained the elected legislature, and retain the power of referendum to undo any act of the legislature (whether on tax or other matters.) As such, whatever the ratio of citizens to members of the legislature, it's ludicrous to suggest that it is "taxation without representation."