Restore Majority Rule in California.

A grassroots movement is beginning to put a measure on the California ballot which consists of one sentence ”All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote." This is the only thing which will make California functional again.

This seems to be the most centralized address for organized work on repealing the 2/3 rule in California. The measure was written by George Lakoff (Professor of Linguistics at Berkeley), and he's one of the main organizers of the campaign.

www.camajorityrule.com

Proposition 13 made it possible to pass Tax cuts with a simple majority and Tax increases require a 2/3rds. This has created a culture of Tax cuts in Boom times that are impossible to replace in Bust times. Treasurer Angelides ran for Governor on a program that would have balanced the budget by raising taxes on incomes over 250K by less than 1 percent for 5 years. Pete Wilson followed a similar formula and it worked. But the days of Sane Republicans are a distant memory, and California decided instead to cut money to the Universities and create a skilled labor shortage that will shrink the tax base even further. These impossibly low tax rates have been hemorrhaging the budget ever since, so it’s probably impossible to fix the budget that easily today. But the real problem in California is too little revenue, not too much spending. Cuts in education create more unemployment, which creates less revenue, which creates more cuts in employment and so on. This is the disastrous Republican "plan" for California's future.

The Republicans have lost the ability to do anything other than Chant the Mantra "NO NEW TAXES". The Majority rule measure will break their stranglehold on the budget, and make it possible to fund essential public services once more. I would urge eveyrone to go to this site and volunteer to help the campaign.The people who say this can't pass are probably also the people that said Obama could never get elected. Let's prove them wrong again