National Ballots Initiatives in the US

[BoyNextDoor]

Apparently we need to amend the constitution to have them. That seems like a worthy amendment to me.

The US would benefit from a process where a national vote could be taken in a presidential election year.

 

[KingOrfeo]

From what I've read, California has had some bad experiences with ballot initiatives. Problem is, the general public is not organized as a deliberative body. If somebody proposes a program in the state legislature, of course the questions of what it will cost and how to pay for it will immediately be raised, and the initiator will expect them to be raised and will be prepared with at least preliminary answers. But the public is psychologically capable of approving an expensive program and a major tax cut on the same ballot because they both look good -- and another initiative is, AIUI, the only way to change either decision; otherwise, those programs and cuts remain locked into the state budget indefinitely, untouchable by the governor or the legislature.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I have more faith in the body politic.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

States are free to vote all the illegals and nigger felons they please, but in national elections the electoral votes are fixed and firm. So fuck you.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

and we need to make welfare illegal