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South Dakota

Pobeka

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1. But when a tax expires there won't be a 60% vote required to allow expiration.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Mar 7, 2021, 09:43 PM

Mar 2021

WA was trying to pass a citizens initiative measure many years ago that would require 66% approval to raise a tax. I asked the guy collecting signatures for it if he thought it seemed reasonable that 1 person gets to control what 2 other people to in a democracy, and he said of course not.

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But when a tax expires there won't be a 60% vote required to allow expiration. Pobeka Mar 2021 #1