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initiatives that only come in two forms: (1) Spend Lots of Money on Cool Stuff and (2) Don't Raise My Taxes.

And (3) Okay, you can raise my taxes, but only if you earmark the revenues for the particular kind of Cool Stuff that's fashionable right this minute.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 05:59:52 AM EST
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But the tax raising gets done by the legislature, not the referenda, doesn't it?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 08:27:32 AM EST
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Often the tax raise goes to a referendum and the initiative includes the earmark as a sweetener.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 08:28:31 AM EST
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Ah, ok.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 8th, 2009 at 08:30:07 AM EST
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