Asked on the "Tonight Show" if he had "any problem" if Californians changed Proposition 22, the 2000 ballot measure that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, Mr. Schwarzenegger replied, "If the people change their minds and they want to overrule that, that's fine with me.
But his proposal to raise commercial property taxes, which might accelerate the business flight from California, would require a vote of the people to change Proposition 13, the 1978 measure that slashed property taxes and has become the third rail of California politics.
The climate change proposition showed no difference between the groups, but interestingly, both groups gave this a low level of acceptance, possibly reflecting the high media exposure of climate change skeptics.
SACRAMENTO — Are California voters ready yet to change Proposition 13 so that all corporations pay their fair share of property taxes?
Pull can occur when a change proposition presents an "irresistible emotional and logical argument that fits with the values, beliefs and life experiences of the clinicians and managers it is targeted at" [ 23].
"The value of Apple is the ecosystem, so if you have Android able to replicate the system, that changes the proposition for developers".
Massey (2008) argues that the initial change began with California becoming a less attractive place for Mexicans due to a series of state and federal policy changes including Proposition 187 that barred undocumented persons from utilizing public services, and the tightening of the US Mexico border that diverted Mexican immigrants from California to other border states.
In the long term, the lack of a supermajority would be likely to prevent Democrats from pursuing changes to Proposition 13 — reducing the vote required for local tax increases, for example.
Democrats are also expected over the next two years to seek changes in Proposition 13 to make local tax increases easier to accomplish, and they promise to look into finding new revenues from certain tax loopholes.
Many politicians are talking a good game when it comes to change but Proposition 19 shows that for real change to happen we the people must lead -- and then the politicians will follow.
