After ACA 1 failed to get enough votes, lawmakers shouldn’t bring it back

If the definition of democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner, the California Assembly was nearly the picture of democracy on Monday.
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 is the latest proposal to attack Proposition 13’s requirement for a two-thirds vote of the electorate to pass tax increases for a special purpose. ACA 1 would change the state constitution to allow taxes for infrastructure or affordable housing to pass with the approval of just 55 percent of vot