Voting "no" will have near-term dramatic and destructive consequences for the schools and for poor people's health. That's part of the reason the measure is before us now. To prevent that. It would be more humane and reasonable to pass it and fine-tune it later.

And, as Springor says below, making complex tax policy through the initiative process is not the preferred way to develop good tax policy. Unfortunately, the legislature has not done its work, so we have the measure. The fine-tuning needs to be done partly after the fact because this is a process. Laws are passed, and then corporations and people react to the law in ways that have unanticipated consequences. Conditions change. And putting the policy through thorough review with hearings from all the affected parties is a good process, one that can't really take place with the initiative process. Let's hope that out legislators do their work well, and let's take action if they don't.