The costs of ballot initiatives should be described in per capita numbers, not absolute numbers. Bad: "this project will cost $8b." Good: "this project will cost the average taxpayer $3k over two years." "Is this worth $8b?" is very different from "would you pay $3k for this?"
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I think the annual budget in California is $200b, and someone earning $50k would pay $4500 in state taxes. If a new measure costs $10b/year, that's $225 extra to the example taxpayer.
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But I definitely hear you, the less one earns, the more incentive there is to approve spending initiatives, since they are mostly covered by others.
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