Could someone please explain why if we, the people, want
more education we have to vote to raise our property taxes, but if we want to
vote for more “lock up your neighbor laws,” those are funded out of the general
fund. Why can’t we vote for “educate your neighbor” laws to be enacted out of
the general fund? I wonder if measure 57 would have passed if voters would have
had to agree to pay for those estimated 3.5 billion dollars over the next 20 years
by agreeing to raise their property taxes to cover the costs.

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