Californians Are Losing Their Supermajority Protection Over Tax Increases | Hoover Institution

Californians Are Losing Their Supermajority Protection Over Tax Increases | Hoover Institution: For the last forty years, California has required that new taxes earmarked for a specific purpose be approved by a two-thirds supermajority in a general election to pass. But the state’s supreme court has thrown out this protection for new tax initiatives that are brought forward by a citizens’ group, rather than by government directly. Predictably, new and expensive tax