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Re:Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30 by jacoblyles on Monday December 17, 2012 @05:32PM (#4934836)
Prop 30 doesn't address the bad schools in California. We have a big union problem: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/new-california-taxe...

High taxes, big deficits, and bad public services - California state government achieves the trifecta of suck.

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Re:Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30 by tarr11 on Monday December 17, 2012 @06:28PM (#4935128)
Prop 30 did address bad schools by avoiding "trigger cuts" of 6 billion dollars in 2012-13 [1] $5.4 billion to K–14 education and $500 million to public universities.

http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/propositions/30/analysis.htm

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Re:Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30 by xxpor on Monday December 17, 2012 @05:57PM (#4934994)
You don't have a union problem, you have a direct democracy problem.
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Re:Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30 by jacoblyles on Monday December 17, 2012 @06:13PM (#4935072)
None of the big unsustainable pension increases involved ballot measures, as far as I know. The unions are the biggest spenders in California election and incumbency is rampant even when the state is going down the tubes.
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Re:Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30 by xxpor on Monday December 17, 2012 @06:20PM (#4935102)
Then tell your local officials to grow a backbone.

If incumbency is rampant, that's a structural problem with your redistricting process, not the unions.

If BigCo Inc is allowed to spend a ton of money in elections, why can't the unions?

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