Allow a Majority Budget Vote in California

George Skelton of the LA Times has a great article calling for a majority vote to pass a budget. California has a requirement to have two thirds of the legislators in both houses approve the taxing and spending plan. If we had a simple majority the budget would be in place now.

One of the surprising voices for the simple majority is one of the budget hold outs.

State Sen. Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks), a hero of fiscal conservatives, long has favored allowing a majority budget vote.

"The two-thirds vote for the budget has not contained spending, and it blurs accountability," McClintock says. "If anything, in past years, it has prompted additional spending as votes for the budget are cobbled together."

Cobbled together by trading votes for pet programs and pork projects.

Amen...I think it is time to change the process.