"The California voters...have bankrupted the state by requiring a 2/3 vote to pass a budget or raise a tax"

Sorry, Joe, wrong. The legislature has done that almost by itself. As a life long (emphasis long) Californian, I have seen the state spending increase sales taxes from 3% to, now, nearly 10%, and that doesn"t count special taxes on fuel, or so called sin taxes that have also ballooned, making the actual sales tax rate much higher.

The legislature, and the special interest groups...prison guards, teachers' unions foremost among them want more an yet more...good times or bad. One would have thought that the taxpayer revolt culminating in the passage of Prop. 13 would have made these groups realize that programs and spending needed to be both prioritized, and kept at reasonable rates.

The legislature blew off Arnold when he came into office, and likewise the voters, when he had subsequently gone to them, by rejecting his program...all of which was opposed by the groups I mentioned.

There are many and complex reasons aside from the above that the state is in trouble...the least problem is the common voter like you or me.