In the meantime, Amazon made its tax proposition.
Or whether money will have the same sway in national politics as it did with the tobacco tax proposition in California.
And he has tried to square those gloomy projections with his rosier promises made to voters in 2012 that a temporary tax, Proposition 30, would provide the needed funds to help stabilize future budgets.
In 1978, it produced the anti-tax Proposition 13 -- a fervent revolution against the political establishment.
Delivering one's first ball in international cricket is a taxing proposition.
More than just a response to rising taxes, Proposition 13 was, as Jarvis's remark indicates, a referendum on representative democracy.
But just as with Proposition 13 — which required a two-thirds majority for the Legislature to increase revenue through new taxes — Proposition 14 could come with a raft of unintended consequences, opponents say.
The money went toward defeating Gov. Jerry Brown's tax increase, Proposition 30, and supporting the anti-union Proposition 32, according to the documents, which list donors to Americans for Job Security, a group that handled contributions in the campaign.
Also, Molly Munger, a civil rights lawyer and the daughter of Warren E. Buffett's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, Charles Munger, spent more than $44 million on a rival tax measure, Proposition 38, which was overwhelmingly defeated.
But the unexpected possibility of adding a supermajority in the Assembly heightened the Democrats' euphoria after Tuesday's election, in which Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion tax initiative, Proposition 30, scored a resounding victory despite fierce opposition from inside and outside the state.
