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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by SllX on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:15PM (#43840133)
Correct. What is the point of having a representative government with a legislature if you just forcibly remove the lynchpin of power for that type of government?
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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by inferiorhuman on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:23AM (#43842529)
That's the point. Props 13 and 8 were part of the republican anti-government movement often memorialized by Norquist's remark about making government small enough to drown.
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Re:Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have b... by SllX on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:27PM (#43851862)
The motivations and rhetoric are before my time. What’s leftover is just this stupid counterproductive set of laws undermining the legislature’s ability to legislate.
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