No longer in California thanks to Proposition 26.
California’s Proposition 26, adopted by a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent — not a landslide but not a squeaker — severely restricts the ability of city, county and state governments to tell whoppers about taxes. Specifically, it tells the bureaucrats they can no longer impose a tax and call it something vague and ambiguous, like a “user fee.” They can no longer get around a state constitutional requirement that taxes must be approved by a two-thirds majority vote or by public referendum.
Colorado could use a Proposition 26.
