{"id":12282,"date":"2010-08-10T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-10T03:34:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:34:06","slug":"prop-25-majority-vote-budget-keeps-its-23-tax-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/10\/prop-25-majority-vote-budget-keeps-its-23-tax-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 25 (Majority Vote Budget) Keeps Its 2\/3 Tax Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12100\/minority-obstruction-campaign-lies-about-prop-25\">I pointed to the specific language of Prop 25<\/a> (majority vote budget) that indicated that the measure didn&#8217;t affect the 2\/3 revenue measure. While many of us may disagree with that, the language is clear. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Howard Jarvis&#8217; corpse had sued to block the summary language that included the statement that tax increases are still governed by the 2\/3 rule. &nbsp;And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/08\/06\/2940926\/judge-ballot-language-for-majority.html\">they won in the trial court<\/a>. &nbsp;Well, today they lost on appeal, and the language stays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s ruling from the appeals court delivers a blow to that argument, saying the measure&#8217;s intent language declaring it would not change the legislative vote requirement on taxes is clear enough to assess the measure&#8217;s impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(W)e find nothing in the substantive provisions of Proposition 25 that would allow the Legislature to circumvent the existing constitutional requirement of a two-thirds vote to raise taxes,&#8221; the ruling reads.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/#ixzz0wA8okZww\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Paul pointed out, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12077\/prop-25-is-most-essential-part-of-november-ballot\">prop 25 is an essential part of this year&#8217;s ballot<\/a>. &nbsp;While this case may not be make or break to us, it might just the difference that pushes the measure over the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12100\/minority-obstruction-campaign-lies-about-prop-25\">I pointed to the specific language of Prop 25<\/a> (majority vote budget) that indicated that the measure didn&#8217;t affect the 2\/3 revenue measure. While many of us may disagree with that, the language is clear. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Howard Jarvis&#8217; corpse had sued to block the summary language that included the statement that tax increases are still governed by the 2\/3 rule. &nbsp;And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/08\/06\/2940926\/judge-ballot-language-for-majority.html\">they won in the trial court<\/a>. &nbsp;Well, today they lost on appeal, and the language stays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s ruling from the appeals court delivers a blow to that argument, saying the measure&#8217;s intent language declaring it would not change the legislative vote requirement on taxes is clear enough to assess the measure&#8217;s impact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(W)e find nothing in the substantive provisions of Proposition 25 that would allow the Legislature to circumvent the existing constitutional requirement of a two-thirds vote to raise taxes,&#8221; the ruling reads.(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/#ixzz0wA8okZww\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Paul pointed out, <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/12077\/prop-25-is-most-essential-part-of-november-ballot\">prop 25 is an essential part of this year&#8217;s ballot<\/a>. &nbsp;While this case may not be make or break to us, it might just the difference that pushes the measure over the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[3263,9088],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-3263","tag-9088"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}