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California could vote for a 0% tax rate today via their ballot referendum system and yet it hasn’t happened.

I think people are a bit smarter than we give them credit for n




> California could vote for a 0% tax rate today via their ballot referendum system and yet it hasn’t happened.

For the state as a whole, sure; I think people can see the problem with that. If you let people vote for an 0% tax for just their town, with the rest of the state staying the same, it'd be a different story.


California got into the problem they're currently in by doing exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13




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