About 20 years ago Oklahoma became one of the states

requiring this: either a supermajority in the House and Senate to raise taxes without a vote of the people. Almost the whole damn state, even a lot of the apologists for state government, had gotten sick of them raising taxes anytime they wanted more money. And on, the screaming! "We won't be able to run the state!" "We were elected, you should trust us!" and so forth. Disaster was forecast if the law was passed(it took an initiative petition to get it on the ballot, with most of the elected clowns and lots and lots of bureaucrats fighting it every inch of the way), and what happened?

The sky didn't fall.

For years, when there was a problem with something, you could count on some of the jerk Senators and Reps who opposed the bill whining that "If it weren't for that requirement, we could fix this"; which tells you their solution to 'fixing' pretty much anything was to raise taxes.

The state budget has jumped from $104 billion to $145 billion in less than six years, opening up an 11-figure (and technically illegal) budget gap. Spending growth has increased 6.8 percent a year under the current administration, compared to annual inflation-plus-population growth of just under 5 percent. Public sector unions dominate the political culture, fattening unstable pension programs and keeping public sector employment high. Sales taxes, income taxes, sin taxes, and various license fees have all recently been increased, and municpalities have been hiking their taxes and fees as well. And there are (insane) proposals on the table of a Democrat-led state legislature to do stuff like force resident businesses with websites–and their customers!–to pay sales tax on all e-commerce.
Note the 'technically illegal' part; if the state government ignores the law, how do you force them to go back and do it right? When you have all those interests counting on(for that matter, forcing) the lawbreaking?

I think the opposition to our law here was one of the early things that started whacking the Democrat majority down in this state; people saw that the same clowns declaring "You can trust us", virtually all Democrats, were the ones who kept adding to taxes, and it gave the opposition a chance. If California taxpayers don't find some way to whack their government over the head and knock it back down to size and obedience, they're screwed. And we're all in trouble, because Pelosi and Feinstein & Co. will, of course, declare "California is too big and important to fail!" and want to reach into our pockets to pay for their crap.