A Libertarian New Year's Resolution for California: Just Say No, No, No, and No

The Libertarian Party of California recommends a No vote on every proposition that will appear on the March Primary Election ballot.

NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
14547 Titus Street, Suite 214
Panorama City, CA 91402-4935

For immediate release

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2003 -- During their recent quarterly Executive Committee meeting held in December, the Libertarian Party of California (LPC) passed four individual motions taking positions on each of the propositions that will be put to the voters who just participated in the unprecedented recall of a state governor. In each case, without dissent, the committee recommended a No vote.

With the March Presidential Primary Election a little more than two months away, the LPC reviewed each of the ballot propositions for the purpose of taking a position (if any) that they would then pass on to their general membership as well as recommend to all California voters. The Executive Committee found that, while voters had just delivered a resounding mandate for change and an end to business as usual in Sacramento, the California electorate will again be presented with four propositions that represent the old big government solutions of borrowing and spending, to be followed by more taxation. Whether the "sessions" each of these initiatives were dreamed up in were "extraordinary" or not, individually and together, they threaten the state's future and its Constitutional protections.

Proposition 55 and 57 are bond measures. Most bond measures are bad ideas and expensive ways to pay for government, and these (one of them a well publicized doozy) are no exception. Passage of Proposition 57 requires passage of Proposition 58 and that is reason enough to be against Prop. 58 and the dangerous precedent it sets despite the deceptively friendly title of "the California Balanced Budget Act." Proposition 56 also pretends to be a friend of the taxpayer and tool for fiscal responsibility, threatening legislators and the governor with penalties if they miss their budget deadline. But it allows budget and budget-related tax and appropriation bills to pass with a 55% vote rather than the 2/3 vote currently required. That safeguard has prevented the proponents of big government from advancing completely uncontrolled.

Again, the Libertarian Party of California urges a No on 55, No on 56, No on 57, and No on 58.

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