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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 02:33 PM EDT |
...not sure you'd actually get to 50% - or even close. In
some ways, that might be a good thing. In other ways,
perhaps not - it might have some interesting budgetary
implications. There's actual real, boring work done in
legislatures to keep the machinery of government working -
and that work is large enough that I suspect a directly run
citizen democracy is impractical. I'd prefer to have the
option of voting on selected issues, along with a very
public period for commentary and revision on new laws. Of
course, this would decrease the possibility for back-room
deals - which are sometimes a good thing - because they
allow negotiation.
Besides, honestly, California passes more aggressively ill-
considered citizen-initiatives than aggressively ill-
considered laws. We just complain less about the
initiatives.
(Oh...and (1-n) not nX. Oopsie.)
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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