It may take the spectacle of watching "the beast" starve to provide the motivation to undo this. Nursing homes may close, dumping tens of thousands of frail elderly back onto family, if any. Welfare assistance will evaporate during the worst employment market since the '30s. Schools are taking a big hit already--there is no summer school pretty much state wide, and educational requirements are being "upgraded" to offer a means of eliminating teachers, class sizes are being increased, etc.
The problem is that all of the initiative driven restrictions on state government's ability to tax has left the state heavily reliant on volatile revenue sources and this is highly pro-cyclical. This current crisis MIGHT provide an opportunity to undo all of this, but I haven't seen anyone step up to publicly explain all of this in an intelligible manner. That would be like Obama taking on Wall Street. So I will believe in sensible reform of state revenue when I see it.
My own view is that the best prospect for change is via a new Progressive Party. It has been said that the times call forth the man. May it be so. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Well, the chickens & roosting.
When granny comes marching home they will find out just how much it costs to keep the old biddy alive. When their kids can't get a public education they will find out how much it costs to private/home school the little brat ...
and so on and so forth.
Personally, I find it all highly gratifying amusing.
A hundred thousand Randian crazies will continue to hold the state hostage because they're either living in the proverbial parental basement, or too rich to notice. Either way they won't be personally affected.
The problem is the canyon-sized disconnect between egotism and consequences among the other voters on the centre and the right. If no one explains how one leads to the other, they still won't understand.
The Right has funders willing to pocketbook the process. The Left doesn't. It's really quite that simple.
The most dramatic impact was on local government as Prop 13 capped tax rates at 1%--the ultimate anti-Georgist measure. Then, IIRCC, SCOTUS rulings about equality of educational funding between rich and poor districts led to most funding for school districts being shifted to the state. The two thirds majority requirement for tax increases has led to the Cave Men blocking any tax increases except the most regressive, such as sales tax, which are also the most pro-cyclical, dropping rapidly during recessions. The Gann initiative required that, during boom times, money could not be spent on capital improvements, as spending was limited to a formula based on population growth, with adjustments for shifts of responsibility among governmental agencies. Doing anything other than returning money to taxpayers required legislative action, which, again, was blocked by the Cave Men. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
