A chess move by California Capitol leadership last week could undercut a pending ballot measure seeking to restrict new taxes.
The latest effort by Democrats to rewrite ballot measure rules surfaced last week, aBusiness and anti-tax groups, led by the California Business Roundtable, have qualified athat would raise the voting requirements for local tax increases and require voter approval of new state taxes.
Last week, however, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 13 was revised to require any ballot measures seeking to increase voting requirements beyond a simple majority to meet the same supermajority level themselves. It would, in effect, require next year’s business-sponsored tax limit to itself receive a two-thirds vote to be enacted – probably a fatal blow., indicating it’s a priority for legislative leadership.
The business tax measure wouldn’t be decided by voters until the November ’24 election, but ACA 13 could be placed on the March primary ballot because the Legislature itself controls the election calendar. It’s exactly what Republicans tried to do in Ohio – something that the president of the United States denouncedWant to submit a guest commentary or reaction to an article we wrote? You can find our
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