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Article #5862Re: CA Assembly votes to triple car tax
From: Arthur L. Rubin
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 05:28
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 05:28
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Barry Gold wrote: > But I must say that moves like that, to prevent it going to a > referendum, are dirty politics. I'm not even sure what they think > they are gaining. In California, opponents can just put through an > initiative to repeal the tax, or even change the state Constitution > to *forbid* the tax. The only difference I can see is they might have > to spend a little bit more if an "initiative" requires more signatures > than a "referendum". Actually, there are significant differences. Once the referendum signatures are accepted by the Secretary of State, the statute is blocked until the election (which may have to be a special election in some cases). An initiative is a new statute which can repeal the statute in question, in some cases retroactively, but doesn't block enforcement until some time after the election....and it can't be a special election unless called by the legislature or combined with a state-wide recall eelction. -- Arthur L. Rubin 216-5888@mcimail.com
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