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Re:Affordable Care by DrScump on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:04PM (#13396600) 

  California must have a supermajority in the legislature to approve taxes. [2]
That's not true, and your referred source doesn't say that.

That said, the Democrats have full supermajorities now.

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Re:Affordable Care by bb88 on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:39PM (#13448119)
Source [2] does in fact say just that:

Quote:

"In addition to decreasing property taxes and changing the role of the state, the initiative also contained language requiring a two-thirds (2/3) majority in both legislative houses for future increases of any state tax rates or amounts of revenue collected, including income tax rates and sales tax rates."

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