http://sandiegofreepress.org/2012/11/ted-lieu-the-vlf-and-the-supermajority/
Even with a supermajority, one can breathe a little easier knowing that state senate Ted Lieu has rescinded the proposal to raise our car registration fee to 2% of the vehicle's value.
Lawmakers, voters, and even the senator's wife apparently stepped in to drive him away from pushing so steep a tax increase so soon.
The San Diego Free Press claims that representative democracy has not improved in California. Granted, anyone would understandably feel cynical about the California political and economic climate now that the tax-and-spend mentality of the Democratic Party has free reign to raise taxes, increase regulations, and expand the reach of government into the private sector to expand the public sector.
Still, the Democrats in Sacramento were not going to pass a tax increase on their own. First, they would test the waters by offering to the voter another proposition, a plebiscite, if you will.
That's good news for those of us who worried that two-thirds of Dems would be bad news for the taxpayers in the state. Even if most of us do not own a home, or have not found another job, we can rest easy in our cars knowing that Senator Lieu would not risk his chances of reelection by pushing an unpopular tax which would hurt more than the monied "1%".
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