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В последнем выпуске журнала Economist (который кстати мне очень нравиться) есть хорошая статья про Калифорнию, касающийся именно того о чём мы говорили. Советую прочесть. Выдержка:
http://www.economist.com/node/17631115
В последнем выпуске журнала Economist (который кстати мне очень нравиться) есть хорошая статья про Калифорнию, касающийся именно того о чём мы говорили. Советую прочесть. Выдержка:
CALIFORNIA has changed direction this year. This is not because of a conservative backlash in the mid-term elections, for there wasn’t one—California bucked the national trend and elected Democrats to all eight of its statewide offices. The legislature remains solidly Democratic. Even the new governor who takes office next month is in fact an old one: Jerry Brown last had the job in 1975-83.
Instead, the change of direction is constitutional, and comes as the cumulative result of a number of decisions that voters made this year, through the state’s peculiar brand of “direct democracy”. In the three decades since Mr Brown’s last reign, voters had created, through the cumulative effect of ballot initiatives, a Byzantine system of governance, taxation and budgeting that left California helpless when the Great Recession hit. In the course of 2010 they have passed reforms that could make the system work again....
It was he [Brown], as governor in 1978, who had to implement (having opposed it) Proposition 13, the most infamous of all ballot initiatives. Created by an anti-tax, small-government insurgency that foreshadowed the “tea-party” movement, “Prop 13” cut property taxes, capped their subsequent rise and required two-thirds majorities in the legislature to raise any tax at all. It thereby undercut the main funding source of local governments, especially school districts. Before it, school districts collected and spent their own revenues. Ever since, they have had to rely for much of their funding on Sacramento, the state capital.
http://www.economist.com/node/17631115