seeric

Although I educated myself on the ballot measures and developed a clear feeling one way or the other, I found myself voting the opposite way when it came time to decide.

I don't trust the government anymore, and from many conversations I've had over the last few months leading up to the elections, I get the feeling that many others in California are losing trust in government too. Not only federal, but state and local.

I voted no on two or three measures that would probably help our state, but at the end of the day I did it because I don't trust the government to do the right thing with the money. So, the lesser of two evils. At least if I don't give them my money, I can do something with it to ensure my life is better. We donate money locally to charities and participate in the community on the regular.

I really wanted to vote yes for 30 and 31. I wouldn't mind that my taxes are raised even a much larger amount than what they are now.

So, I guess there are two perspectives to what happened. You lose if you vote yes and they misappropriate the money, and you lose if you vote no and the law doesn't pass when they actually would have done the right thing (assuming that they would). The chances of them doing the right thing with the money is not very good, as history has proven. I'm not going to give them more money to misappropriate and squander.

Do you catch yourself thinking that way too?

I don't believe in blind trust anymore.