'The Left is finally waking to the power of ballot initiatives as tools to advance egalitarian and redistributive policy.'
With numerous initiative campaigns around the country raising minimum wages, protecting abortion rights, and in the case of Massachusetts's Fair Share Amendment, taxing the rich to fund public services, the Left is finally waking to the power of ballot initiatives as tools to advance egalitarian and redistributive policy.
The example of Arizona is instructive here. Arizona is in numerous ways a bellwether state. From regressive immigration policy to school choice, Arizonans seem cursed to preview nationwide political developments in our own perverse laboratory of democracy. Despite its promise—or perhaps because of it—Prop 208 didn't last long. The year after voters approved 208, the state legislature dropped down tax brackets to nullify its effects. The year after that, the State Supreme Court declared the initiative unconstitutional.
The rich, many will be unsurprised to hear, have better tax lawyers than most. They can spend money on the front end to stifle redistributive efforts , but they can also spend on the back end to chip away at or, in the case of Prop 208, completely gut any tax policy they don't like. They are well-organized, they have the necessary connections, and they won't stop until they get what they want.
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