Proponents argue that Prop 105 is necessary because voter initiatives are out of control and that they are unfunded mandates, making state fiscal management difficult if not impossible. Is this true?
No. Voters addressed this issue in 2004. They amended the Arizona Constitution to read that any new expenditures imposed by a referendum or initiative also must generate the funds to pay for those expenditures. Furthermore, the amendment states that funding needed due to voter passed initiatives cannot come from the general fund and if the new source of revenue that the initiative proposed is not generating enough funds, the legislature may reduce expenditures accordingly. Voters already addressed this issue and it is in the Arizona Constitution–see Article 9, Section 23. Due to that amendment, voters cannot pass any initiative without a source of revenue being part of the same package. Prop 105 is not about taxes, spending, or fiscal responsibility. It is about voting rights.
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