Autofag just stumbled across what seems like an attempted money grab using a Massachusetts ballot proposition. I think the concept extends to many ballot propositions in multiple states going back many years but the end result is always the same if the proposition passes, your money enriches others. My example is the right to repair law update on the upcoming Massachusetts ballot:

https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,%22Right_to_Repair_Law%22_Vehicle_Data_Access_Requirement_Initiative(2020)#Text_of_measure

Without debating the proposal what I can tell you without any doubt is the timeline of enactment is impossible, not improbable but impossible. The proposal is to apply to 2022 model year vehicles and beyond, just FYI 2022MY cars can be produced as early as January 2, 2021.

It looks to me like the purpose of this proposal is to transfer money. As the timeline is impossible to meet the automakers are left with only a few options, pay a fine if possible, bribe the legislative committee that could delay enactment of the law, stop selling vehicles in Massachusetts or litigate. Fine and litigation is most probable in which case the law firms involved stand to make significant legal fees over the course of several years and the State gets their fines. Who wins? The State gets their fines and your taxes pay the litigation, the law firms make money regardless of outcome. Who ties? The automakers, who passed the legal fees on to the consumer regardless of outcome. You are the loser getting hit on both ends as the taxpayer and the consumer.

How many more ballot propositions follow this format? You as the taxpayer and end consumer are always the loser and you voted for it to be that way.