But those theoretical rationales become tangled in the complications of real life," "The voters may have been prudent" "Washington voters can’t be faulted for declining to levy this tax on themselves,"
The editors, like the proponents of these measures, want someone else to pay to promote their ideals and goals, just to see if it works.
Voters are smart enough to know from history that 1) they, not the idealists, are the ones who will bear the biggest burden and 2) A tax which will reduce some other tax, unless carved in stone in a Constitution will, perhaps within in months, perhaps within in years,  inexorably be restored or increased by a legislature. History proves it is the way of Legislators.