Efforts to reform California’s governing system often focus on one or two ideas that can be turned into ballot initiatives. Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s Think Long Committee was different. Members agreed on a broader approach – offering a series of integrated proposals in seven major areas with the goal of designing a new governing system. Here are highlights of those recommendations, and how they reached them, in the contentious area of taxation.
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A better economy saw people leaving the Midwest and Northeast in droves, taking their votes with them. But bad times mean they stay put — just in time for redistricting.