The Fair Tax referendum failed.

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Never had a clue there was that many people making $250,000 in Illinois. Wow. MORONS, voting against their own best interests...AGAIN

[pansypoo53219]

1. they donot teach economics.the media gives them ekonomikkks.

[Cicada]

2. Here in CA we get deceptive tv ads which mislead people

And often the moneyed interests vastly outspend the truthful side, so people don’t really understand the issue.

[ShazzieB]

3. We had a ton of deceptive tv ads here in IL

I couldn't watch TV without seeing them constantly. There were some non-deceptive ones, but they were greatly outnumbered. GD billionaires poured a ton of money into making sure it failed.

[Cicada]

4. My favorite example was a car insurance initiative

The proposal was to provide universal auto insurance through a small fee in the price of gas. That would eliminate uninsured motorists 100% and dramatically reduce costs. When you had an accident you would randomly be assigned to an insurance company. That absolutely would reduce auto insurance costs in half or more. Think of how much Geico spends for commercials, how much is paid for insurance salesmen. It is a no brainer excellent idea. But it lost by a huge margin. A very nice man in Connecticut, Andrew Tobias, spent more than ten million dollars to get it on the CA ballot. He was told that firms would give him a 100% guarantee the initiative would get enough signatures in CA if he paid them 8 million to collect signatures. So he told CA officials they should put any initiative on the ballot in return for an eight million dollar filing fee. He didn’t get that rational idea adopted either.

[live love laugh]

5. VERY disappointing. nt

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6. The ballot language was very confusing. Purposely I believe. nt