California’s consitution needs to be rewritten. Anytime the public can mandate spending with a simple majority but needs more than a majority to approve a tax increase, you’re headed for fiscal disaster. Prop 13 was a well intentioned problem maker, and CA has so many mandated spending programs the general fund has no real flexibility.
It will be interesting to see if Arnold can reform the prison system. Those on the right would love to break the union, and those of us on the left would like to see a shrinkage of the prison-industrial complex. There’s definitely room to cut spending in a way that has broad public appeal.
