Wow, was I surprised...

You are assuming of course, that the State is actually going to use that money to fix roads.
Maybe some of it... but I bet the majority of the tax money gets skimmed off, and blown somewhere else.
Hope I'm wrong, and hope some of that State money is shared with the local cities. The streets are a mess in a lot of areas.

 

State referendums mean that it's pretty hard to say that the people didn't get rudder input.
I approve of them unreservedly as long as folks understand that they can be challenged to conform with legal norms.
Example: Prop 9
Oh wait.
Excuse me....I forget that the California recycles some of their prop numbers.
Prop 9 in this case would have attempted to split Caly into three states.......because evidently gazillionaires are not necessarily familiar with the US Constitution (as amended...)

As long as the ballot initiatives are accurately phrased (something that hasn't happened in the past) I think that they're just fine, and it doesn't have to be the cause celeb for political feces farmers.
For P6, I don't have 'skin in that game' but if I'm accurately informed from folks that I know who live behind the wire, the reason that P6 was a 'thing' is that road taxes sometimes....aren't.
That's about as far as I can dip my toe into that scummy pond on this side of the kindergarten.

California residents collectively are not tax averse.
And they LOOOOOOOOVE bonds!
Period.

If I could afford to live there, and if they were not already choked with 39.54 million other people living there I might consider moving there myself.
After all.....we have ultra liberal enclaves east of the Rockies that have to endure abysmal weather and one thing you have to give props to Caly for (pun almost unintended) is that they have good weather!!!

The people have spoken....

 

I understand you don't get something for nothing and I'm willing to pay my fair share, BUT that's not what happened here. We were already paying our fair share and the people were sold a bill of goods. The discussion should have been how our gas taxes, already among the highest in the nation before the legislature passed the increase, were being spent on everything BUT fixing roads. This election we were inundated with millions of dollars in scare tactic advertising, never mentioning once that they were already collecting a lot of money that should be earmarked for roads but aren't.

The only redeeming thing about this ballot initiative is that it was written spelling out exactly how the funds could be spent (% for road repair, % for mass transit, etc.) so they couldn't siphon off the funds for pet and social projects like they've been doing for the last 25 years.

ETC(SS) - You're right about people here loving bonds. They don't realize that they have to be paid with interest by the taxpayers. It's amazing how many discussions over the years I've had with people who don't understand that.