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Currently in California we have multiple social issues. Conservatives put forward the viewpoint that we should be limiting taxes and oversight, and spending our social service dollars first on taking care of our own citizens, painting liberals as irresponsible. Liberals argue for more governmental oversight and service, painting conservatives as uncaring.

Wondering what you all think of this idea: encoding funding proportionally to set system priorities.

Example:
Homelessness vs social services for non citizens.

What if we specified that the total state spending on all non-citizen services (healthcare, legal, employment benefits/welfare) must not be greater than 35% of the spending dedicated to citizen homeless services? This way we meet at a compromise showing a caring for all people, but a budgetary responsibility to the citizens.

Another example:
Personal income tax percentage collected per income quintile (incomes broken into 5 levels) may not exceed corportate or capital gains tax rates per quintile. In other words, bigger companies would have to get taxed more the same way higher income individuals are taxed more (or if capital gains/corporate rates stay the same, income taxes would be forced to come down)

A third example:
Income tax standard deductions as a percent of gross income (by quitile) must be as large as the average corporate deduction from gross revenue (by quintile).