Returning to my philosophy that propositions should only be used when absolutely necessary, I just don’t see this prop as being that important. The reality is that the legislature makes the budget every year and the governor approves it. These people SHOULD be able to do one of their most important jobs. Additionaly, I’m totally against having arbitrary metrics of how much spending will get spend on certain programs. Furthermore, I don’t see a need to do midyear spending corrections if we’ve made a good budget and are willing to make corrections the following year.

Sadly, our legislature has let us down. They’ve continued to outspend their revenue as well as playing all kinds of games to get around the spending limits we’ve put in place in the past. Because of this, I sympathize with those who support this bill. We DO need to get our budget situation under control. That said, the right solution to this problem is to elect new legislators. If we put the right people in office, they’ll solve the problem.

Since there is already a “proper” solution to our budgetary problems, there is no reason to make the water any muddier in our budget laws by passing this proposition.

My endorsement: NO on prop. 76

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